3- Day of the virgin of the Divine Shepherd

 ¿What is it?


     Normally we know her as the divine shepherd but it is correctly said "the mother of the divine shepherd" it is a celebration. What happens on February 14 in the Lara state of Venezuela, more precisely in the state capital, Barquisimeto, this is where this great celebration takes place where the Marian invocation "the divine shepherd" will come to the Marian invocation, according to the church, a Marian invocation It is a regional image of the Virgin Mary, something similar to an alternate figure of the Virgin Mary which is fully accepted by the Catholic Church, as well as other virgins like Guadalupe in Mexico, etc. This has a main veneration center which is located in the parish of Santa Rosa in Barquisimeto, it is known as the patron saint of the FANB militia (the Bolivarian National Armed Force) and its event is held every year without fail on the 14 from January.

Source

     Everything has its origin in Spain in the year 1700 AD, it is there when a Capuchin Friar, Fray Isidoro of Seville had a vision in the meadows of the Virgin Mary herself, he described her as a beautiful shepherdess who wore a shepherd's crook wearing a purple robe. blue mantilla and at his side among the bushes a wolf stalked, with this image engraved on his head the Capuchin went quickly to express his costume of the Virgin Mary to a painter who portrayed what this man saw in that meadow.

     It is here when its veneration begins because in a procession of 1703 it is exhibited with a sung rosary carrying the painting as an image of the Virgin, and it is years later when to furnish a church, Francisco Ruiz Guijón sculpts the new Marian Virgin in stone. After this with the arrival of the Capuchins to Venezuela, the parochial vicar of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the center of Barquisimeto, decides to also incorporate this image for his veneration and it is in this way that the image of the Virgin originated. of the divine shepherdess.

     What most marks or refers to this virgin is the event that took place in 1835 when a cholera epidemic affected the town of Barquisimeto, causing more and more people to die at the hands of this disease, it is then that the church made the decision to remove the sculptures of the Virgin of the Nazarene and the one that the Virgin of the Divine Shepherdess was waiting for, so that all pray together as an event to the Blessed Virgin on January 14, 1856, after that Father Yépez did not return her to her common church but took her to conception church where a ceremony was held and all the parishioners prayed while Father Yépez's words echoed in the church, the cholera patient asked the Virgin for help to rid the people of cholera and thus be the , the last victim of this epidemic, giving his life to the virgin to save the people. It is said that since that time, the cases decreased and the epidemic was emancipated, forever marking January 14 when the virgin of the divine shepherdess saved the town of Barquisimeto.

Celebration 


     The celebration of the Virgin of the Divine Shepherdess, takes place every January 14 in a religious way, on that day there is a procession where the image of the Virgin is taken out and a walk through a large part of the city, accompanied by the father of the church of the immaculate conception and rosaries are sung at the same time as the procession is made, this is considered the largest procession in the world of a Marian invocation, it is in position number 3 in pilgrimage, after the Virgin of Guadalupe , in Mexico and the Virgin of Fatima in Portugal, but it is the largest procession in attendance of parishioners, as an example is on January 14, 2016 when more than 4 million people attended the procession, therefore it is considered the procession of a Marian dedication greatest in the whole world.

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