Virgin of the Peana

Patrona de Borja (Zaragoza) · Collegiata de Santa María

La Virgin of the Peana es la patrona de Borja, on the sountano of the Moncayo. Popular overname of the Virgin of the Rosary, her devotion culminates every spring in the famous Crystal Rosary. It was canonically crowned in 1989.

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History and origin

The cult dates back to the 16th century - in 1532 there was already an altarpiece dedicated to the Virgin of the Rosary - and "de la Peana" is the popular nickname of the Virgin of the Rosary from Borja. His patronage began in 1650, when the Cabildo ordered that only this image be carried under pallium; the first religious function was held in 1789, following the loss of crops by the pedrisk, and the feast was fixed in 1791 on the first Sunday of May. In 1948 the Pope Pius XII She was recognized as the main patron of the city.

The Crystal Rosary

The central event of the parties is the Crystal Rosarythat process the first Sunday of May. It was designed in 1924 by the priest Federico Magdalena Sanjuán, inspired by the Crystal Rosary of the Virgin of the Pilar of Zaragoza; it first came out in 1928 with 50 lanterns, then extended to 122. It's declared Aragon Tourist Interest Party (2005).

The canonical coronation

It was canonically crowned the 7 May 1989 by Bishop Ramón Bua Otero, in the square of Spain of Borja, coinciding with the second centenary of his veneration.

Favors and popular devotion

Borja entrusts to the Peana the needs of the city and the countryside, and thanks him for his devout memory with gratitude, without this being a formal ecclesiastical statement.

The Virgin of the Rosary

As a nickname of the Virgin of the Rosary, the Peana unites Borja with the prayer that gives name to this site. Nothing more of its own, before her, than to pray the Holy Rosarywith whom Mary always leads us to her Son.