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Iglesia de Santa Bárbara is a prefabricated iron church in Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, Mexico. It is said to be designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel in 1884, [ 1 ] and built in 1887. [ 2 ] First shown at the 1889 Exposition Universelle of Paris , France, it was moved to Brussels , where it was acquired by the Boleo Mining Company who ...
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Santa Rosalía is a city and municipal seat of Mulegé Municipality, in Baja California Sur, situated along the Gulf of California. Located on the east coast of the Baja Peninsula , the town had a population of 14,357 inhabitants in 2020. [ 1 ]
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Location of Hampton in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampton, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
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The chapel is sacred to Saint Rosalia, the patron against plague. She was born to a wealthy family. As an adult, she left her family's home and lived as a wandering mendicant. Rosalia died on September 4, 1160. She became the symbol fight against indulgence, regarded as an ideal of self-control.
The church was built as a votive shrine, within the then-Parish of St. Rosalia (later renamed St. Rosalia-Regina Pacis Parish). The original parish church, built in 1905, was considered the "Mother Church of Italian immigrants" of the diocese. [2] The church was raised to the status of a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in November 2012. [2]