Our Lady of Copacabana
Cathedral of Our Lady of Copacabana in Bolivia
Posted on 09/24/2011 9:53:03 AM PDT by Salvation
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The principal Marian shrine of Bolivia, on the Peruvian border. This shrine to Our Lady, dating from 1592, is located in the mountains near Lake Titicaca. The site marked the location of an Inca temple to the Sun God. The legend of Mary and her Son goes back to 1576, when she appeared to some Inca fishermen and led them to safety in a violent storm on the nearby lake. In gratitude they built a small shrine in 1583 for a four-foot-high statue of wood and stucco carved by a descendant of Inca nobility. On feast days the Madonna is clothed in costly embroidered robes that scintillate with a thousand precious jewels. Her mid-August feast day pilgrimages usually last ten days, sometimes more. At these celebrations groups perform their Indian dances to drums, pipes, and flute, re-enacting events from their history. Daily processions pass along the lake roads carrying a replica of their Bolivian Queen of Heaven as she blesses the boats offshore. The original statue never leaves the basilica, for there is a popular legend that "Our Lady does not want to be outside," and when they disturb her "violent storms will occur."
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Too confusing. That’s Our Queen of Copacabana...;)
In before the...oh. Never mind.
News to me, too. Although—Peruvian friends of mine have a magnificent painting of Mary in similar costume & halo. They never referred to it as anything but Our Blessed Mother. Then again, most older depictions of Mary in South America seem to be in such Infant-of-Prague regalia.
lol!
This obviously ain't no ordinary idol...This one blesses boats and will create violent weather if someone, against its wishes, carries it outside...
This is certainly no depiction of Jesus' mother, Mary...
Very new. I never heard of this story? Copacabana. All I can think of is the Club. LOL! The title sounds like saturday night live skeet. Just a strange title.
skeet = skit
The music and fashion were celebrating the Passion ...
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