{"id":5812,"date":"2026-06-23T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/our-lady-of-chiquinquira"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:01:21","slug":"our-lady-of-chiquinquira","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/sk\/our-lady-of-chiquinquira","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Chiquinquir\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rr-om\">\n<style>\n.rr-om{max-width:880px;margin:0 auto;font-family:Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1E2A36}\n.rr-om h1{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;text-align:center;font-size:2.1rem;margin:.4rem 0 .2rem}\n.rr-om .rr-sub{text-align:center;color:#8A6D1D;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:1.15rem;margin:0 0 1.2rem}\n.rr-om .rr-lead{color:#344054;line-height:1.75;max-width:720px;margin:0 auto 1.2rem}\n.rr-om h2{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;font-size:1.45rem;border-bottom:2px solid #C9A227;padding-bottom:.35rem;margin:2.2rem 0 .9rem}\n.rr-om h3{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;font-size:1.1rem;margin:1.4rem 0 .5rem}\n.rr-om p{color:#344054;line-height:1.75}\n.rr-om .rr-card{background:#fff;border:1px solid #E6E1D8;border-radius:14px;box-shadow:0 4px 14px rgba(30,42,54,.06);padding:1.2rem 1.4rem;margin:0 0 1rem}\n.rr-om .rr-datos{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(240px,1fr));gap:10px;margin:.6rem 0}\n.rr-om .rr-dato{background:#F8F5EF;border:1px solid #E6E1D8;border-radius:10px;padding:.6rem .9rem;font-size:.95rem}\n.rr-om .rr-dato b{color:#1F4E79}\n.rr-om .rr-cita{background:#F8F5EF;border-left:3px solid #C9A227;padding:.8rem 1.1rem;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;margin:1rem 0;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;color:#41506b}\n.rr-om .rr-cita .rr-quien{display:block;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-size:.8rem;color:#8A6D1D;margin-top:.4rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em}\n.rr-om .rr-nota{background:#F3E7BD66;border:1px solid #E6D9A8;border-radius:10px;padding:.6rem .9rem;color:#6B5512;font-size:.92rem;margin:.4rem 0 .9rem}\n.rr-om .rr-btns{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;justify-content:center;margin:1.6rem 0}\n.rr-om .rr-btn{background:#1F4E79;color:#fff;border-radius:999px;padding:.6rem 1.2rem;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:.92rem}\n.rr-om .rr-btn:hover{background:#183B5C;color:#F3E7BD}\n.rr-om .rr-flor{background:linear-gradient(135deg,#1F4E79,#183B5C);border-radius:16px;padding:1.6rem 1.4rem;color:#fff;margin:2rem 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid #C9A22755}\n.rr-om .rr-flor h3{color:#F3E7BD;margin-top:0}\n.rr-om .rr-flor p{color:#E8EDF3}\n.rr-om .rr-flor a{display:inline-block;background:#C9A227;color:#1E2A36;border-radius:999px;padding:.7rem 1.5rem;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;margin-top:.6rem}\n.rr-om .rr-fuentes{font-size:.88rem;color:#667085;border-top:1px solid #E6E1D8;padding-top:1rem;margin-top:2rem}\n@media(max-width:560px){.rr-om h1{font-size:1.7rem}}\n<\/style>\n\n<h1>Our Lady of Chiquinquir\u00e1<\/h1>\n<p class=\"rr-sub\">Patroness of Colombia<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"rr-lead\">Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquir\u00e1 is one of the best-loved Marian devotions in America. Queen and patroness of Colombia, she is venerated in an ancient cotton canvas painted around 1562, which is kept in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquir\u00e1, in Boyac\u00e1. Her name recalls the town where the first of her miraculous manifestations took place, and her devotion has spread throughout the country over the centuries.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Key facts<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rr-datos\">\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Feast:<\/b> 9 July (in Colombia)<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Place:<\/b> Basilica of Chiquinquir\u00e1, Boyac\u00e1, Colombia<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Image:<\/b> cotton canvas (c. 1562), by Alonso de Narv\u00e1ez<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Renewal (tradition):<\/b> 26 December 1586<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Patroness of:<\/b> Colombia (consecrated and crowned in 1919)<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>In Venezuela:<\/b> patroness of Maracaibo and of Zulia state (feast on 18 November)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"rr-nota\">The miraculous renewal of the canvas (1586) and the wondrous events surrounding it belong to <strong>tradition<\/strong>, gathered by the chronicles. We distinguish them from the documented facts about the painting, the basilica and the patronages. The Maracaibo (Venezuela) devotion, with its own tradition and its feast on 18 November, is described separately.<\/p>\n\n<h2>History and tradition of Chiquinquir\u00e1<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The canvas and its decay<\/h3>\n<p>In the 16th century, the Dominican friars were evangelizing the central region of present-day Colombia. Around 1560, the encomendero Ant\u00f3n de Santana was to build a chapel in Suta, and Friar Andr\u00e9s Jadraque saw the need to provide it with a painting of Our Lady of the Rosary, a devotion promoted by the Dominican Order. For this they turned to the Spanish painter Alonso de Narv\u00e1ez, who lived in Tunja. By around 1562 the painting \u2014made on indigenous cotton, measuring about 125 by 111 centimetres\u2014 was already in the chapel, with Our Lady of the Rosary accompanied by Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Andrew the Apostle.<\/p>\n<p>The canvas remained there for more than a decade. Around 1574, the chapel&#8217;s thatched roof let in the damp and the image was practically erased. In such poor condition, it was taken to the town of Chiquinquir\u00e1 and abandoned in a room that rarely served as an oratory; tradition relates that it was even used to dry grain in the sun.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The miraculous renewal (tradition)<\/h3>\n<p>The historical chronicle \u2014written the year after the events\u2014 relates that in 1586 Mar\u00eda Ramos, a local woman, knowing that this canvas had held the image of the Virgin, repaired the old oratory and gave it the best place in the chapel. Daily she prayed, asking Our Lady of the Rosary to make herself manifest. On 26 December 1586, as Mar\u00eda was leaving the oratory, an indigenous woman named Isabel and her small son called out to her:<\/p>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abLook, look, ma\u2019am\u2026!\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">According to the chronicle of the renewal<\/span><\/div>\n<p>When she turned her gaze to the painting, the image \u2014which had been unrecognizable\u2014 was shining and had been restored to its original colours and brightness; the holes and tears in the cloth had vanished. From then on the devotion to \u00abOur Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquir\u00e1\u00bb began. The shrine was entrusted to the Dominicans, who built a convent beside it to keep the image.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The basilica and the devotion<\/h3>\n<p>After a strong earthquake in 1785, the friars decided to build a new basilica in another part of the town and to move the image there, which was done around 1823 despite the protests of the townspeople. Popular devotion was expressed in great pilgrimages and processions, and in historical events involving viceroys, bishops and politicians; Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar himself went on several occasions to pray before the painting for the success of his campaign.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Patroness of Colombia<\/h3>\n<p>The government of Marco Fidel Su\u00e1rez decided in 1919 to consecrate Colombia to the Virgin of Chiquinquir\u00e1 as its Queen and Patroness. On 9 July 1919, President Su\u00e1rez crowned the Virgin of Chiquinquir\u00e1 as Queen of Colombia in a ceremony held in the Plaza de Bol\u00edvar in Bogot\u00e1, in the presence of the apostolic nuncio and several bishops. On occasion the image has been carried with great solemnity to Bogot\u00e1 to pray for the end of wars, disasters or epidemics; the most recent transfer of this kind was in 2017, on the occasion of Pope Francis&#8217;s visit to Colombia. Earlier, Saint John Paul II had prayed for the peace of Colombia at the feet of the Virgin in her basilica, in July 1986.<\/p>\n\n<h3>La Chinita of Maracaibo (Venezuela)<\/h3>\n<p>In Venezuela, Our Lady of Chiquinquir\u00e1 \u2014\u00bbla Chinita\u00bb\u2014 is venerated under the same name as patroness of Maracaibo and of Zulia state, whose feast is celebrated on <strong>18 November<\/strong>. Zulian tradition relates that at dawn on 18 November 1709, a woman who was washing clothes in the lake of Maracaibo gathered up a small board that was floating; when she cleaned it at her home the marks of a religious image appeared, and shortly afterward flashes of light came forth from it. It should be made clear that this Zulian devotion is much later (18th century) than the Colombian one (16th century): they share a name and iconography because the devotion gradually spread beyond the Andean region where the first miracle occurred.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The spiritual message of Chiquinquir\u00e1<\/h2>\n<p>The devotion to Chiquinquir\u00e1 speaks to us today in simple words:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcff <strong>Mary renews what seemed lost.<\/strong> The tradition of the restored canvas is a sign of hope: nothing is so worn that God cannot renew it.<br>\n\ud83d\ude4f <strong>Mary hears humble prayer.<\/strong> She made herself manifest to a simple woman who prayed with perseverance before a forgotten image.<br>\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 <strong>Mary accompanies her people.<\/strong> Queen and patroness of Colombia, she sustains the faith and hope of the Colombian people.<br>\n\u271d\ufe0f <strong>Mary always leads to her Son.<\/strong> The Child Jesus in the painting reminds us that the Mother never keeps anything for herself, but leads us to Him.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Prayer to Our Lady of Chiquinquir\u00e1<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rr-card\">\n<p>Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquir\u00e1,<br>\nQueen and patroness of Colombia:<br>\nyou who renewed with your light what seemed lost,<br>\nrenew in us faith, hope and love.<br>\nReceive our pleas, console your people<br>\nand lead us by the hand to your Son Jesus.<br>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pray also the <a href=\"\/en\/how-to-pray-the-rosary\/\">Holy Rosary<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">Marian prayers<\/a>, turning to Mary as the devotees of Chiquinquir\u00e1 have always done.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"rr-flor\">\n<h3>\ud83c\udf39 A flower for the Virgin<\/h3>\n<p>Offer a simple prayer to Our Lady of Chiquinquir\u00e1. Pray a Hail Mary for Colombia.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">Pray a Hail Mary<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rr-btns\">\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">\ud83d\ude4f Marian prayers<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-calendar\/\">\ud83d\udcc5 Marian calendar<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/how-to-pray-the-rosary\/\">\ud83d\udcff Pray the Rosary<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/pray-the-rosary\/\">\ud83c\udf39 More devotions<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rr-fuentes\">\n<strong>Sources:<\/strong> \u00abVirgen de Chiquinquir\u00e1,\u00bb Spanish Wikipedia (version consulted in 2026) \u00b7 data on the canvas by Alonso de Narv\u00e1ez (c. 1562), the basilica, the consecration and coronation as patroness of Colombia (1919) and the Maracaibo devotion gathered in that article. The miraculous renewal of the canvas (1586) and the wondrous events \u2014both in Chiquinquir\u00e1 and in Maracaibo\u2014 are presented as tradition gathered by the chronicles, distinguished from the documented facts about the painting, the shrine and the patronages.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lady of Chiquinquir\u00e1 Patroness of Colombia Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquir\u00e1 is one of the best-loved Marian devotions in America. Queen and patroness of Colombia, she is venerated in an ancient cotton canvas painted around 1562, which is kept in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquir\u00e1, in Boyac\u00e1. 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