Our Lady of the Destroying

Marian title of Florianópolis (Santa Catarina)

La advocación de Our Lady of Desterro (Our Lady of the Destierro) is historically linked to the current city of Florianópolisin the state of Santa Catarina, Brazilwhose original name, in the 18th century, was Our Lady of Desterro. This villa of Desterro is the historical core of the current Catalan capital, and the main church dedicated to the Virgin received the title of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Nossa Senhora do Desterro. The advocation refers to exile from the Holy Family to Egypt, one of the evangelical mysteries that the Christian tradition has often seen in the key to protection and protection of those who suffer exile or migration.

Main data

Origin and history

La advocación de Our Lady of Desterro (Our Lady of the Destierro) is historically linked to the current city of Florianópolisin the state of Santa Catarina, Brazilwhose original name, in the 18th century, was Our Lady of Desterro. This villa of Desterro is the historical core of the current Catalan capital, and the main church dedicated to the Virgin received the title of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Nossa Senhora do Desterro. The advocation refers to exile from the Holy Family to Egypt, one of the evangelical mysteries that the Christian tradition has often seen in the key to protection and protection of those who suffer exile or migration.

As for the introduction of this advocation in Florianópolis, the available sources of general character on Marian asvocations mention Brazil especially for devotion to Nossa Senhora Aparecida and other asvocations, but do not provide specific details on the exact date of erection of the parish or cathedral of Nossa Senhora do Desterro. They do not contain, in the sources consulted, any foundational documents or a detailed official account that will allow the establishment of the year of the city's devotion to be determined with certainty; however, their condition of historical patron of the old villa of Desterro, origin of the present Florianópolis.

From a strictly mariological, Nossa Senhora do Desterro is among the claims that remember a biblical episode of the life of Mary and Jesus (the exile to Egypt), and is not associated with private apparitions or a concrete miraculous event officially recognized by the Church. There is no local tradition of apparitions or a legendary account developed around this advocation in Florianópolis in the revised sources; therefore, no specific foundational legend is documented, beyond the general evangelical reference to the exile of the Holy Family.

(Geographical note: the sources clearly identify Nossa Senhora do Desterro as the historical patron of the old village of Desterro / Florianópolis, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, not from a "department of Santa Catarina, Colombia"; the title described here is that linked to the Brazilian Catarinense capital.)

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The image and the sanctuary

The accessible sources of general character on Marian titles and lists of Marian titles no describen con detalle la imagen concrete of Nossa Senhora do Desterro venerated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Florianópolis. The material (wood, stone, plaster, etc.), or the authorship or date of realization of the headline image, is therefore not documented. Nor is a precise iconographic description provided in the documentation consulted (Mary's position, the presence of the Child Jesus, symbols of exile such as the donkey, Joseph's cane, the road, etc.); therefore, does not contain a detailed and secure iconographic description of the image.

The main place of worship is the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of Desterro, mother temple of the Archdiocese of Florianópolis. The general sources mention it as a cathedral dedicated to this Marian advocation, without adding the title of a minor basilica or national Marian sanctuary. It is not recorded in the material consulted that the temple has been elevated to the dignity of the national or diocesan sanctuary specific to the advocation, beyond its rank of metropolitan cathedral. No detailed architectural descriptions (style, construction stages, restorations) appear in the revised sources; therefore, these data no constan with the precision required to be rigorously affirmed.

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Sponsorship and coronation

The advocation of Nossa Senhora do Desterro is recognized as historical patrona de la antigua villa of Nossa Senhora do Desterro, original name of the city called Florianópolis, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. This patronal bond is linked to the fact that the city took its first name from precisely the Marian headline of its main church, so that the civil history and the ecclesial history of the town are strongly intertwined.

As for the canonical coronationthe general sources on Marian advocacy and lists of national or local patronings do not mention a solemn canonical coronation of the image of Nossa Senhora do Desterro in the Cathedral of Florianópolis. Since there is no explicit reference to a pontifical decree, date, or to the name of a pontifical legacy or ecclesiastical authority that has performed a canonical coronation, it must be said, rigorously, that does not contain a documented canonical coronation for this advocation in that sanctuary.

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Party and devotion

The information provided places the main feast of Nossa Senhora do Desterro on 2 February. However, the general sources consulted on Marian advocacy and Marian party calendars do not explicitly refer to this date as a universal or particular liturgical memory of the advocation of Florianópolis. Consequently, from a strictly documented point of view, the exact date of your own party in the local calendar is not verifiableAlthough it is true that there is a patronal celebration in the Archdiocese of Florianópolis and in the city, associated with this advocation, which may coincide with some significant biblical or local date. Without access to direct diocesan sources, this data cannot be confirmed safely.

On the devotional life, Marian repertories point out that many calls linked to a city have strong popular roots, with processions and patronal celebrations, but in this case do not offer attendance figures, details of annual pilgrimages or specific traditions (promises, candles, novias, etc.). Therefore, as regards Florianópolis and the Cathedral of Nossa Senhora do Desterro, no quantitative data or precise descriptions of devotional manifestations (processions, pilgrimages, co-fradies) that can be cited with documentary rigour.

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Link to the Rosary

Las fuentes revised on Our Lady of Desterro do not indicate a specific or historical link with the Rosary prayerunlike other explicitly rosarian asvocations, such as Our Lady of the Rosary. For example, there is no record of the existence of a co-fraternity of the Rosary which is canonically linked to this image, nor of a Marian title that officially relates the advocation to the practice of the Rosary.

However, from the perspective of the Marian spirituality and from the theology of the Rosary, the advocation of Nossa Senhora do Desterro is particularly illuminated by contemplating the mysteries of the life of Christ and Mary. The exile to Egypt is inserted into the whole of the joyful and painful mysteries, as an expression of the Holy Family's obedience to the will of God and of the solidarity of Christ and Mary with the migrants, persecuted and exiled. The prayer of the Rosary makes it possible to contemplate this aspect of Mary's mystery: Mother who accompanies the Son in the escape, who shares the fear, uncertainty and poverty of the road, and who becomes a sign of comfort for those who today live in situations of uprooting.

Thus, although there is no specific rosarian tradition documented for Nossa Senhora do Desterro, the Rosario offers a privileged framework for uniting devotion to this advocation with the meditation of the Gospelsespecially in the scenes of Jesus' childhood and in all those in which Mary's fidelity is lived in the midst of trial and forced displacement.