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The Virgin of El Panecillo (in Spanish: Virgen del Panecillo), also known as the Virgin of Quito from the sculpture of the same name, is a monument in Quito, Ecuador. It is located on the top of the hill of El Panecillo , a loaf-shaped hill in the heart of the city and serves as a backdrop to the historic center of Quito.
Herrán Matorras' Virgin of El Panecillo (1976) on El Panecillo is a large replica of the sculpture. The Virgin of Quito (Spanish, La Virgen de Quito) — also known as the Virgin of the Apocalypse, Winged Virgin of Quito, Dancing Madonna, and Legarda's Virgin — is a wooden sculpture by the Quiteño artist Bernardo de Legarda (ca. 1700-1773) which has become the most representative example ...
^1 Celebratory masses on the Feast of Christ the King and a pilgrimage to the top of the mountain are held annually in October. The Stations of the Cross line the trail up the mountainside. By tradition, the mass ends with the shout Long live Christ the King. ^2 p. 54 Tom Lea: an Oral HistoryISBN 0-87404-234-8
The Leon County Sheriff's Office is investigating an "in-custody death" after a 43-year-old woman was found unresponsive in a cell at the Leon County Detention Facility on Friday morning.
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Shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat, Santos, São Paulo: Pope Pius XII Our Lady of Mount Carmel: 16 July 1961: Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mariana, Minas Gerais: Pope John XXIII [31] Our Lady of the Rosary [32] 7 December 1961: Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, Ubá: Pope John XXIII [u] Our Lady of the Pillar [33] 8 July 1963
A distinction is sometimes made between apparitions that are "Vatican approved" and those that are not. However, by the norms of Normae Congregationis, the only formal mechanisms for Holy See approval of an apparition would be the pope approving an apparition that had occurred in the Diocese of Rome, or the pope approving an apparition against the will of the local bishop, neither of which has ...