Catholic Word of the Day: ANDACOLLO (shrine)

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ANDACOLLO (shrine)

The national sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary in Chile. Devotion at the shrine grew up around the three-foot cedar statue of the Madonna and Child. It is said that the Spaniards brought the statue with them when they discovered Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearby Indians revolted and killed the newcomers and the statue disappeared. Many years later the Spaniards returned and converted the Indians. One of them, named Collo, cutting trees in the mountains, found the discarded statue after his ax blade had hit it and he heard a voice say, "You are hurting me." He took the wooden image home. Later a shrine was made and people came for devotions to pray to the Virgin, who still bears the scars of the ax. A privileged citizen is appointed at the annual celebration, December 24,25,26, to make a public apology to the Virgin Queen in Collo's name for the injury his ax caused her. It symbolizes the people's sorrow for their sins.

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[Salvation]

For these last two weeks of Lent I will post a Catholic Word of the Day. Let me know what you think.......Would anyone want to take over posting it after these two weeks?

Do you even want it?

[Salvation]

Catholic Word of the Day Ping?

Would you like to have this as a regular feature?

[Salvation]

Catholic Ping.

[notaliberal]

Yes

[Global2010]

It is simplistic enough for my mental agility to have a Catholic word of the Day.

Some of the Catholic teachings here and on EWTN are too complex to understand.

I often ask KV when we are going about the day and reading/listening to Catholic teachings: Did you get that?

Because I didnt and he Always says Sure I did.

(I think he likes teasing me as in gee Mom how come you didnt get it)

[Salvation]

There are things that we all don’t understand. Keep growing and you will amaze yourself!

[Global2010]

And by the Grace of God it will be revealed to me as it serves him.

Joke around our home is Mom is so much like Peter.

His intentions to serve were of zeal but somehow he missed the point the Lord was trying to make on so many occasions and needed to have things pointed out allot. LOL

[agere_contra]

Fascinating, thanks for posting!

[Jaded]

Could you add the pronunciation as well?

[Salvation]

The site doesn’t have that information, but from the little Spanish I know I wonder if it would be something like

Ahn-da-coy-yo

Pinging a linguist.

[Mad Dawg]

Fiat.

[AnAmericanMother]

No hablo Español. Lo siento!

[SuziQ]

Ahn-da-coy-yo

Yep, that would be it.

I've never heard of this shrine, but I'm sure there are many, all around the world, in honor of our Blessed Mother.

[annalex]

The Virgin of Andacollo, Tongoy, Chile



The Virgin of Andacollo, Tamberias, Argentina

[Salvation]

Calling tax-chick

[Salvation]

Thanks for the photos — or are they paintings?

[annalex]

They are painted dressed statues.

[AnAmericanMother]

That's a long-standing Latin American custom. The santos -- wooden sculptures with finely detailed heads and hands and jointed bodies -- are dressed in beautiful silks, satins, and jewels.

[annalex]

The Virgin of Andacollo ad orientem in Mendoza, Argentina.

[Tax-chick]

In my Mexican-American accent, it would be “an-da-COY-yo.” In Spain, “an-da-CAHL-yo.” I’m not familiar with Chilean pronunciation; don’t think we have any Chileans in our congregation!