There are many versions about the discovery of the Virgin of
Suyapa. The most widely accepted version is that of its miraculous discovery by
agricultural worker Alejandro Colindres. ; at the end of January or beginning
of February in 1747.
According to the Honduran tradition, and our source the
Honduran page, Xplor Honduras, Colindres and his 8-year-old son were sent by
his mother to clean fields of corn to the mountain of Piliguín, northeast
Tegucigalpa. On the way back, they were caught in the night and decided to
sleep outside. Colindres was awake because of a sharp pain in his side and he
realized that he was lying on something. Later versions of the story affirm
that Colindres, without seeing what he was, took and threw what bothered him as
much as he could, but when he went back to bed there he was again. The next
morning, Colindres discovered that he had been sleeping on a statuette of a
virgin, which he then took to the altar of his family in his mother's house.
It was not until after 20 years of staying at the altar,
when in 1768 the statue was credited with its first recognized miracle and
began to attract the attention of the entire public. After his first miracle,
the family of Colindres began to raise funds to build a chapel, which was
completed in 1777. In 1925, Pope Pius XI declared her patron saint of Honduras
under the title of Our Lady of Suyapa and declared the 3 February as your
holiday. In the decade of 1950 a great basilica next to the chapel was
constructed, named Basílica de Suyapa. Currently, the statuette of the virgin
spends most of the time in the chapel but every year moves to the Basilica of
Suyapa on the day of its celebration to accommodate the crowd of people who
attend to see it, both from Honduras and the Center America.
The first remarkable miracle, attested notarially, occurred
in the year of 1796. The first hermitage was blessed in 1780 and the
present-day temple, of enormous proportions, capable of housing 1983. In the
country of the poor, this Sanctuary of Santa María de Suyapa is the crowds that
make pilgrimages to Suyapa, was visited by John Paul II in located in one of
the most humble areas of the city.
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