Our Lady of the Coronade Carmen

Jerez de la Frontera · Basilica of Carmen · The first crowned Carmelite in the world

In its Jerezan basilica venerates Our Lady of the Coronade Carmen, a size of the 16th century that in 1925 became the primera imagen carmelita del mundo in being crowned canonically.

Main data

History and origin

Devotion is linked to the arrival of the Order of Carmen a Jerez in 1586, year in which the image came from Seville. The Child Jesus is traditionally attributed to Luisa Roldán, challa Roldanaffa, added at the end of the 18th century. The image survived the looting of the War of Independence, the deamortization of Mendizábal, the orderly demolition in the 1868 Revolution and the 1931 riots. She is a patron of the Jerez Shoes and Fire Corps.

The canonical coronation

El 23 April 1925in the park González Hontoria, was crowned canonically by the nuncio Federico Tedeschini: it was one of the first Marian images crowned from Andalusia and the primera imagen carmelita del mundo to receive such an honor. For the occasion, a crown of the José David Esteve goldsmith was carved, with a front star of 58 diamonds.

The party

Su festividad es el 16 July, day of the Virgin of Carmen, with annual procession, preceded by a triduum in April and a novena.

Favors and popular devotion

Jerez entrusts to his Virgin of Carmen the needs of the city and thanks him for the favors kept in the devout memory of his faithful, without this being a formal ecclesiastical declaration.

Mary, beauty of Carmel

The scapular of Carmen expresses the maternal protection of Mary over those who welcome her. To that same Mother goes with him Holy Rosarywith which the Virgin always leads us to her Son.