Our Lady of Consolation

Patrona de Utrera

The tradition speaks of an ancient miraculous image, linked according to local versions different from minimum or Dominican friars, and of cures attributed to the Virgin from the 16th century.

Main data

Origin and history

The tradition speaks of an ancient miraculous image, linked according to local versions different from minimum or Dominican friars, and of cures attributed to the Virgin from the 16th century.

Historically, the sanctuary had a great development from 17th centurywith an abundant record of exvotes and pilgrimages due to diseases, especially leprosy and skin conditions, as well as plague. The current image is of the 17th century Sevillian school, with subsequent touches.

The image and the sanctuary

The image is venerated in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Consolationon the outskirts of Utrera, an important pilgrimage sanctuary from the Modern Age. The sanctuary preserves an impressive historical collection of ancient devotees and crutches, testimony of the healing attributed to the intercession of the Virgin.

Sponsorship and coronation

She is patron of Utrera, and very venerated throughout the region of the Sevillian countryside. His canonical coronation took place on 1 May 1964by the bull of Paul VI; the act was held in the sanctuary itself.

Party and devotion

The feast and pilgrimage are celebrated around the September 8, festive of the Nativity of the Virgin. There are decimonic chronicles of the local press that describe the city almost empty on the night of the "visit of the Virgin" and the light and rocket parties of September.

Link to the Rosary

There is no fellowship of the Rosary of the Virgin of Consolation. The Rosary of the Aurora and the community prayers of the Rosary are part of the cults of September 8 and the novies, as common devotional practice without specific legal particularity.