Our Lady of Carmen de La Paz, civic patron of the city of La Paz

Patrona de La Paz

The Carmelite tradition links the devotion of the Virgin of Carmen to the Monte Carmelo and with the delivery of evapulario a San Simón Stock, episode located by the tradition of 13 July 1251. This data belongs to the tradition and cannot simply move into the particular history of the image of La Paz.

Main data

Origin and history

The Carmelite tradition links the devotion of the Virgin of Carmen to the Monte Carmelo and with the delivery of evapulario a San Simón Stock, episode located by the tradition of 13 July 1251. This data belongs to the tradition and cannot simply move into the particular history of the image of La Paz.

La documented history of the concrete advocation in La Paz is not recorded in the sources provided. Nor is there any security in the results received, a local chronology of the temple's foundation, the arrival of the image, or direct documentary relationship with the independence of the country.

The image and the sanctuary

No description verificable of the concrete image venerated in La Paz: material, size, specific iconography or antiquity. It is therefore not possible to claim with certainty whether it is a processional image, a dress, a polychrome size or other typology.

Nor does it contain in the sources provided the full official name of the Pacean temple or its exact ecclesiastical category. The available results generally refer to churches and shrines from other locations, but do not clearly identify the minor basilica or Carmelite church of La Paz that corresponds to this advocation.

Sponsorship and coronation

With regard to patronazgo cívicothe sources provided do not allow to verify with certainty whether this advocation is patron of the city of La Paz, its municipality or a specific diocese in Colombia. In addition, the information found about patronuncios de la Virgen del Carmen mixes references of Bolivia, Chile y Colombiaand therefore should not be used for this local file without specific documentation.

About canonical coronation, does not contain a documented canonical coronation in the sources provided for this concrete image of La Paz.

Party and devotion

The main party of the Virgin of Carmen es el 16 July. This date is well established in the Catholic and Carmelite tradition, although there is no specific data on the form of the celebration in La Paz in the documentation received.

They do not contain in the sources provided local pilgrimages, influx figures, or popular traditions of La Paz. The strong devotion to the Virgin of Carmen, with popular expressions linked to drivers, processions and acts of thanksgiving, is general in Colombia, but these features cannot be automatically attributed to this specific headquarters without a local source.

Link to the Rosary

The relationship of this advocation with the Rosary No specific information in the sources provided. In general Marian terms, devotion to the Virgin of Carmen and the prayer of the Rosary are intertwined in Catholic spirituality for its common contemplative, Christological and Marian character, but that connection must be presented here as a reflexión general, no as a documented local historical date.

If a verifiable local source is provided - for example, the site of the parish or sanctuary, the competent diocese or a Catholic press release on La Paz - I can write a complete and closed sheet, already with the level of precision required by a web of devotion.