Virgin of the Door
Otuzco, Peru (1560)
The Augustinians founded the highland city of Otuzco in 1560, dedicating both town and church to the Immaculate Conception. On the church’s main altar was a statue of the Virgin from Spain, carried in procession once annually on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Gradually, the octave of the feast assumed public importance, and a second processional statue was created for use on December 15, from a workshop in Venezuela. In 1670, looters were on their way to Otuzco. Townspeople took the statue out to the road where the attackers would come, and remained there three days in prayer. The looters never came and so the statue was enshrined above the church door. Devotion to the Virgin of the Door continued through the centuries.
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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill
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