Our Lady of Garaison

Marian Advocation of Monleon- Magnoac (Occitania)

The tradition of Our Lady of Garaison places the origin of the sanctuary in the 16th centurywhen the Virgin would have appeared repeatedly to the shepherd Anglèze de Sagazan en Monléon-Magnoac. According to this tradition, Mary asked for conversion and penance, and the place became a center of penitential pilgrimage Very frequent. In the local religious memory, Garaison was attached to the call for the amendment of life and prayer.

Main data

Origin and history

The tradition of Our Lady of Garaison places the origin of the sanctuary in the 16th centurywhen the Virgin would have appeared repeatedly to the shepherd Anglèze de Sagazan en Monléon-Magnoac. According to this tradition, Mary asked for conversion and penance, and the place became a center of penitential pilgrimage Very frequent. In the local religious memory, Garaison was attached to the call for the amendment of life and prayer.

En la documented historythe sanctuary of Garaison was consolidated as a place of worship and pilgrimage in the Modern Age, with a sustained development of devotion and pastoral attention to the sanctuary. The sources consulted present the miraculous origin as Pious traditionbut they do not provide in the available material an exhaustive chronology of the primitive building or its successive reconstructions; for prudence, these ends must be given as no consta In this file.

The image and the sanctuary

The advocation is venerated in the santuario de Notre-Dame de Garaison, en Monléon-Magnoac (High Pyrenees, France). The sources consulted identify the place as a Marian sanctuary for pilgrimage, but the material available does not contain a detailed description of the headline image - exact type, material or iconography; therefore, such data should be indicated as no consta.

Nor does it indicate in the sources gathered that the sanctuary has the condition of minor basilica. It does know that it is a Marian sanctuary linked to the memory of the apparitions to Anglèze de Sagazan and to the penitential devotion of the region.

Sponsorship and coronation

No consta un patronazgo universal clearly documented for this advocation in the sources consulted. It also does not contain a documented canonical coronation in the available material; therefore, the correct formulation on the sheet is: does not contain a documented canonical coronation.

Party and devotion

La main party se celebra en September, according to the devotional tradition associated with the sanctuary.

Garaison has historically been a place of penitential pilgrimage, marked by Marian confession, conversion and prayer. The sources consulted highlight precisely this character as a sanctuary of penance; the available material does not contain reliable inflow figures or specific popular traditions sufficiently documented to incorporate them without risk of error.

Link to the Rosary

The sources consulted do not contain a specific and exclusive historical relationship between Our Lady of Garaison y el prayer of the Rosary.

However, the Rosary naturally fits into this devotion, because a Marian sanctuary of apparitions and penance refers to the same spiritual center as the Rosary: to contemplate Christ with Mary's eyes, to ask for conversion and to persevere in prayer. In a devotional form, it is sufficient to indicate that the Rosary accompanies this advocation as contemplative and penitential Marian prayerwithout giving him an institutional link that is not documented.