Our Lady of the Flagstones

Potosi, Colombia (1754) 

 

In 1754, Maria Mueses de  Quinones, an Indian woman  from the village of Potosi, Colombia and her deaf-mute  daughter Rosa were caught in a storm. They sought  refuge in a canyon where Rosa exclaimed with her first words “the mestiza is calling me.” She did not see the figures of a woman and child that the girl described  and fearfully ran back with her daughter to Ipiales and told the townspeople. On  her return, the woman saw an apparition of Our Lady and Child. Some months later, Rosa died and was returned to life when her  mother prayed again at the cave. The townspeople came to see at this place a miraculous image burned into the rocks. Our Lady appeared miraculously imprinted on a stone slab, near the bottom of a pit of the Andes.

 

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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill

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