Mare de Déu de Núria

Marian title of Queralbs (Catalonia)

The Mare de Déu de Núria is a venerated Marian mountain advocation, typical of the Pyrenees valley of Núria, in the region of Ripollès. According to tradition, the image was found by San Gil (Sant Gil), a story that belongs to the genre of the legends of finding images. The history of the sanctuary has developed around the Pyrenean valley and the high mountain Marian cult, without having a certain date of documented origin.

Main data

Origin and history

The Mare de Déu de Núria is a venerated Marian mountain advocation, typical of the Pyrenees valley of Núria, in the region of Ripollès. According to tradition, the image was found by San Gil (Sant Gil), a story that belongs to the genre of the legends of finding images. The history of the sanctuary has developed around the Pyrenean valley and the high mountain Marian cult, without having a certain date of documented origin.

The image and the sanctuary

The image is venerated in the Santuari de Núria, in the municipality of Queralbs, Girona province. The sanctuary retains a strong character of pyrenian pilgrimage; the valley, the lake and the host have made Núria a very unique devotional center, located in a natural place of great beauty.

Sponsorship and coronation

She is the patron of the Núria valley and the center of intense communal devotion. Canonical coronation does not consist of the sources consulted here.

Party and devotion

In the devotional practice of the sanctuary, the feast is associated with the 8 September (Nativity of Mary). There is no record of an exclusive party other than this date. Devotion is especially lived as a mountain pilgrimage to the valley of Núria.

Link to the Rosary

There is no distinctive link of this advocation to the Rosary in the sources consulted.