Our Lady of Carmen (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

Marian vocation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife)

La devoción a Our Lady of Mount Carmel en Santa Cruz de Tenerife is documented from 1670, according to the municipal chronicle, which highlights its old arraigo in a port city with a strong marine tradition. The Carmelite advocation is explained from the general tradition of Monte Carmelo and from the love of the people of the sea to the Virgin.

Main data

Origin and history

La devoción a Our Lady of Mount Carmel en Santa Cruz de Tenerife is documented from 1670, according to the municipal chronicle, which highlights its old arraigo in a port city with a strong marine tradition. The Carmelite advocation is explained from the general tradition of Monte Carmelo and from the love of the people of the sea to the Virgin.

The image was found in the The Matrix Parish of Our Lady of Conception, historic temple of the capital of Tierfeña. The concrete details of the origin of the size do not reflect in the sources consulted beyond the antiquity of devotion.

The image and the sanctuary

The image of Carmen was venerated in the The Matrix Parish of Our Lady of Conception of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The detailed description of the image (author, time, materials) is not recorded in the sources consulted.

Sponsorship and coronation

She is the patron of all the people of the sea: Navy, Merchant Marina, fishing fleet and sports nautical. The municipal chronicle underlines its status as patron of the maritime world and the antiquity of its veneration. A canonical coronation does not consist of the sources consulted.

Party and devotion

His party is held 16 July, liturgical memory of Our Lady of Carmen. The detail of the current festive program is not in the sources consulted, but devotion maintains its strong historical roots as the patron of those who live and work at sea.

Link to the Rosary

There is no particular link to the Rosary in the sources consulted. However, because of its Carmelite root, the acvocation of Carmen is linked to the scapular and the prayer of the Rosary, a prayer that the Order of Carmen has always spread. Before the patron of the people of the sea, the Rosary is the prayer that entrusts to its protection to sailors and fishermen.