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2 unusual facts about Virgen


Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol

Meinhard and Albert IV of Tyrol also had to pay a compensation and to renounce certain possessions including Mittersill, Virgen, Matrei and Oberdrauburg.

Virgen

Virgen is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.


Andacollo

According to these legends, La Virgen del Rosario, also known as la Virgen Morena, or Black Madonna, appeared to an indigenous miner called "Collo" in the form of a small wooden statuette hidden in rocks.

Bartolomé Morales

Bartolomé will join in this town, and he will live folk customs, among which is the devotion to the Virgen Morena, Our Lady of Charity, linked to the religious tradition of the Cubans.

Fiestas del Pilar

Fiestas del Pilar are an annual festival celebrated in the city of Zaragoza (Spain) in honour of the patron saint of the city, the Virgen del Pilar (Virgin Mary of the Pillar).

Gesnouinia arborea

In Gran Canaria found in Los Tiles de Moya, Barranco de la Virgen and Osorio, rare.

Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío is one of the most important Hospital of the South of Spain.

Human pyramid

Algemesí holds a Human Pyramid Festival annually on September 8 as a component of thee Fiesta de La Virgen de la Salud (Virgin of Good Health).

Illescas, Toledo

Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad: it was built in 1500, there are five paintings by El Greco: La Caridad, San Ildefonso, La Coronacion de la Virgen, La Natividad and La Anunciacion.

Otuzco

It is the capital of the Otuzco Province, and it is well known because there is the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Puerta.

Pedro Roldán

Altarpiece of the Entombment of Christ, Saint George, Saint Roch, and the Virgin of Charity (Entierro de Cristo, San Jorge, San Roque y Virgen de la Caridad, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ourense

The Bishop of Ourense has his cathedra (Latin, "chair") in the Catedral de la Virgen Madre de los Milagros in Ourense and his jurisdiction covers all the 28 districts and 735 parishes of the Province of Ourense.

Romeria

Another one of the most representative examples is the Romería of the Virgen de la Cabeza (Andújar, Jaén), which is considered the oldest Romería of Spain, and consists of the displacement of the travellers coming from all over the country to the Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza, through 33 km of Andújar, in the heart of Sierra de Andujar natural park.

Santa Cueva

Santa Cueva de Montserrat, origin of the Virgen de Montserrat (Virgen de la Moreneta) patron saint of Catalonia.

Santa María de Guadalupe Monastery

Behind the basilica is Camarin de la Virgen, an octagonal baroque structure (1687–96) with the impressive stuccoed Chamber of the Virgin and nine paintings by Luca Giordano.

St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag

The 5 other nearby Baliuag churches which bound the Parokya are: the Immaculate Conception Quiasi Parish (Concepcion), the Nuestra Sra delas Flores Parish (Virgen delas Flores), the Our Lady of Most Holy Rosary Parish Church (Makinabang), the Holy Family Parish (Tangos) and the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Sabang).

Suellacabras

In the municipality is included the village El Espino, with the romanesque church of San Benito and two hermitages: Virgen del Espinar and San Román (gothic, ruins).


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