the virgin of saint Nicholas It is one of the many dedications with which the Virgin is worshiped María In the catholic church. This is a highly venerated virgin in the Argentina republic, and its day of celebration is the object of an important pilgrimage.
History of the Virgin of Saint Nicholas
In XNUMX, the holy town church dedicated to Saint Nicolás de Bari, in which a statue of the Virgin of the Rosary was placed. In the current century, a woman, the lady Gladys Quiroga de Motta narrated that he had witnessed a succession of visions of this saint, the first of which had occurred on September twenty-fifth, nineteen eighty-three. If you want to know more about these topics of Marian devotions you can read novena to the untied virgin.
Chronology
- 1884: The first mass is celebrated in the church dedicated to St. Nicholas of Bari, in this ceremony the donation of an icon of the virgin of the rosary.
- 1983: the twenty-fifth of September in the town of Saint Nicholas of the Streams, Gladys Quiroga de Motta, parent of a couple of girls, a humble village midwife who had not even completed primary education, says she had seen and heard an effigy of miraculous origin that she could not identify.
- September twenty-eighth: Originates the second vision of Gladys Motta, who explains it to his family and close neighbors.
- October XNUMX: After a nervous isolation, he consults the effigy what he wanted and then receives the sight of a hermitage.
- October twelve: Gladys Quiroga tells what happened to the priest Carlos perez.
- October fourteenth: Mrs. Quiroga attends a meeting with the bishop of san Nicholas, at this time he was monsignor Antonio Rossi.
- October seventeen: After an extensive review in different temples of the place, he arrives at the church of San Nicolás de Bari, and in this place the image of the virgin who lived there with him appears again. In a niche of the place, he finds the statue of his visions. It was kept and was missing the right hand and the rosary.
- November twenty-fourth: A path of light points to Gladys Motta the place where he was to erect the place of worship.
- November XNUMX: The saint asks the woman to locate her on the banks of the Paraná.
- July XNUMX: The Marian movement of St. Nicholas.
- December XNUMX: The saint gives him a message: "Gladys, you have to have a medallion made with the image that stands out to me as Mary of the Rosary of Saint Nicholas and on the back, the Holy Trinity with seven stars."
- 1985: May twenty-fifth: they begin to go to San Nicholas a large number of believers, causing the entire city to mobilize.
- June thirteenth: Ten thousand pocket books are printed in the town of Rosario that contained María del Rosario's statement.
- August twenty-fifth: The municipality of San Nicolás donates to the institution of the church the land where the sanctuary would be built, the place was called the little field.
- September twenty-fifth: The virgin communicates again with the lady Motta, and indicates that the seven stars represent the seven graces of the son of God, everyone who carries them on his chest will be worthy of grace.
- October twenty-fifth: The new home for the pilgrim and the location of the headquarters for the propagation of the Marian movement begin.
- 1987: Until month six of this year, more than two million cards of the saint had been printed.
- April XNUMX: Monsignor Castagna meets with Juan Pablo II on the journey that Pope made to Argentina.
- October XNUMX: Sign the document with the company that would be in charge of the construction of the sanctuary.
- 1990: On April XNUMX, the largest pilgrimage for this dedication occurs, about sixty thousand religious from all over the world.
marian phenomenon
Every twenty-fifth of September, in the town of San Nicholas, one of the largest pilgrimages in memory is received, many thousands of believers and parishioners arrive to worship the image of the Virgin of San Nicholas or our lady of the rosary of san Nicholas. When celebrating the two decades of the first appearance of this dedication, in the year two thousand and three, four hundred thousand people could be counted.
People attended from all over the world. Argentina, groups of thousands of people could be seen walking the great distance between the city of Buenos Aires and the sanctuary of the virgin of san Nicholas. This is a very long journey but that did not matter to the faithful followers of this Marian dedication.
When it came three decades after the first time the vision of the Virgin of San Nicholas, more than half a million people attended the sanctuary, which was a greater number than the attendees in the year two thousand and four, even in the present time a greater pilgrimage has not been registered. If you want to know more about these topics of religion you can read the history of the Mystic Rose.
The sanctuary
The sanctuary is manufactured following an architectural analysis, and thus achieve that in the common areas of the building, ground floor and mezzanines, between eight and nine thousand standing human beings can fit. For acts in outdoor areas, terraces and esplanades were created. It has a dome with a radius of twelve meters and on the outside, it has a radius of thirteen meters, which is designed in sixty-four oval sections.
This building and construction of the dome was made of reinforced concrete, and copper plates were placed on the outside in the form of individual plates. Thanks to this it can be seen from many places in the city. It is still under construction, although by May XNUMX, XNUMX, the internal areas were inaugurated.
Case study
In the month of August XNUMX, the theological scholar Rene Laurentin, put out a study called An appeal from Mary in Argentina: the apparitions of Saint Nicolas: a call from Mary in Argentina: the apparitions of Saint Nicholas, with more than one hundred and sixty-three pages.
In a visit that the lawyer made to the city, it should be noted that he has dedicated himself to investigating and publishing about other supernatural appearances. He dedicated part of his thanks to the people who collaborated with him to make this book, among them he mentioned Monsignor Sunday Salvador Castagna, Marie Helene Sutter de Gall and the priest Carlos perez, To who Gladys Motta Trust your experience.
In the year nineteen ninety-four, the scholar of history Cajetan Bruno, from the city of Rosary, printed his History of the manifestations of the virgin, María del Rosario de San Nicolás, a study that was carried out compiling the official information of the Shrine Archive.
A book titled Messages in the year nineteen ninety, it contains a compilation of the different messages that the virgin gave to the seer Gladys Motta, is an extract of the one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven visits that the virgin made to the woman.
Previously, in the year nineteen ninety-one, a similar publication was written, but with observations and comments, it was titled Who is this woman? the author was Victor Martínez.
Approval by the Catholic Church
On May XNUMX, XNUMX, a decree was signed declaring the visions of the Virgin of Saint Supernatural to be of a supernatural nature. Nicholas. This recognizes the Virgin of San Nicholas at the diocesan level, within the institution of the Catholic Church.
But, in the year two thousand and seventeen, the prelate of San Nicholas, resolves to stop the public dissemination of the messages. He argued that this decision was supported and approved by the Vatican. Before this extreme decision, nine works were published with the contents of the apparitions, a huge sanctuary was built, which makes contributions to the diocese and receives millions of pilgrims on pilgrimage.
During all this time, they had not really been able to verify the apparitions, they could never agree on the criteria to use for this purpose. This story became stronger and stronger, until it reached the scale it currently has, but with everything and this has not been verified.
Despite this, faith in this dedication continues to grow, many studies have been carried out on the story by theologians, and the experts, who interviewed the woman, documented that both the messages and the image are in accordance with the Marian dedications, we will have to wait for them to agree, but the reality is that the pilgrimages continue, and the parishioners continue to pray to the Virgin of San Nicholas. If you want to learn more about these topics you can read Saint Montserrat of pregnant women.