Virgin of Granada

Patrona de La Puebla del Río (Sevilla) · "La Reina de los Cigarreros"

On the banks of the Guadalquivir, the Virgin of Granada es la patrona de La Puebla del Río, a Sevillian villa of old cigar tradition that calls it "the Queen of the Cigareros." It was canonically crowned in 2009.

Main data

History and devotion

The devotion of La Puebla del Río to the Virgin of Granada is ancient and very deep: it is its life-long employer and mayor, and the cicarero of the villa is known as "The Queen of the Cigareros". The image, which supports the Child Jesus, is venerated in the parish church of Our Lady of Granada, by the river. The advocation of Granada - with the fruit opened as a symbol of the Church gathered in the faith - is not exclusive to this villa: it is also found in other villages of the south-west peninsular.

The party and the coronation

Its main holiday is the September 8, Nativity of the Virgin, with a massive procession through the streets; it is also venerated during the Corpus Christi. It was canonically crowned the 5 September 2009at a ceremony organized by Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, three days before his trial departure.

Favors and popular devotion

La Puebla del Rio entrusts its patron to the needs of the people and thanks them for the favors kept in their devout memory, without this being a formal ecclesiastical statement.

Mary, grenade of grace

The grenade, the fruit of a thousand grains united under one skin, has always been an image of the Church gathered by Mary. She goes with him. Holy Rosarywith which the Virgin always leads us to her Son.