Virgin of the Remedia de La Matanza (Orihuela)

Marian Advocation of Orihuela (La Matanza) (Comunitat Valenciana)

The Virgin of the Remedia is the patron of La Matanza, pedanía of the municipal term Orihuela in Vega Baja, in the linde with the Region of Murcia. His history combines parish documentation with a unique episode of the War of Independence. The hermitage under this advocation dates from 1700; en 1760 was enlarged; 1788Bishop José Tormo made it the aid of Parroquia, building the present temple with the baroque altarpiece that is preserved today. 1952Bishop García Goldaraz erected it as his own parish. In the morning of 1-2 June 1808, in full alarm of the French advance, several neighbors who were making begging claimed to see the figure of the Virgin on a cypress located 22 steps from the church. The event was collected in parish documents of the time.

Main data

Origin and history

The Virgin of the Remedia is the patron of La Matanza, pedanía of the municipal term Orihuela in Vega Baja, in the linde with the Region of Murcia. His history combines parish documentation with a unique episode of the War of Independence. The hermitage under this advocation dates from 1700; en 1760 was enlarged; 1788Bishop José Tormo made it the aid of Parroquia, building the present temple with the baroque altarpiece that is preserved today. 1952Bishop García Goldaraz erected it as his own parish. In the morning of 1-2 June 1808, in full alarm of the French advance, several neighbors who were making begging claimed to see the figure of the Virgin on a cypress located 22 steps from the church. The event was collected in parish documents of the time.

Image and sanctuary

In the explanade in front of the temple was raised a memorial of the apparition of 1808. The temple retains the baroque altarpiece of the 18th century, a work of special heritage value.

Sponsorship and coronation

Patrona de La Matanza (Orihuela). No canonical coronation.

Party and devotion

Double holiday: first Sunday of October (patronal) y 2 June (anniversary of the apparition of 1808), with mass and commemorative procession.

Link to the Rosary

The devotion to the Virgin of the Remedia in La Matanza includes the prayer of the Rosary as the central practice of the parish, especially during the rogations and novies in honor of the patron.