Our Lady of the Soledad of the Carrier

Patrona del Cabildo de Gran Canaria · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria venerates Our Lady of the Soledad of the Carrierthe only image of the Virgin in her coronated pain with pontifical rank throughout the Canary Islands. Patrona del Cabildo de Gran Canaria, is a devotion of Franciscan root.

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History and origin

Of Franciscan origin, devotion is based in the church of San Francisco of Assisi. Tradition points out that the image could be a gift from Isabel the Catholic - without documentary evidence - and that the above images could be lost in the 1599 fire caused by Pieter van der Does' troops. The current size is anonymous from the 17th century. His devotion is linked to San Antonio María Claretwho preached his novena in 1848 and 1849.

The pontifical coronation

The Pope Juan XXIII He granted his canonical coronation with pontifical rank on December 19, 1962, and the image was crowned on 19 March 1964: is the only image of the Virgin in her pain with this range throughout the Canary Islands.

Favors and popular devotion

Gran Canaria entrusts to its Soledad the needs of the island and thanks it for the favors kept in the devout memory of its people, without this being a formal ecclesiastical declaration.

The Solitude of Mary

Soledad contemplates Mary after the death of her Son, alone and faithful in the hope of the Resurrection. She goes with him. Holy Rosarywith which the Virgin always leads us to her Son.