Aránzazu, Nuestra Señora de

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Name (Latin)
Aránzazu, Nuestra Señora de
Other forms of name
Ama Birjiña Arántzazuko
Arántzazuko, Ama Birjiña
Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu
Our Lady of Aranzazu
Virgen de Aránzazu
Virgin of Aranzazu
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q27983478
Library of congress: sh2017004621
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Paranympho celeste : historia de la mystica zarza, milagrosa imagen, y prodigioso santuario de Aranzazu de religiosos observantes de N. seraphico padre San Francisco en la provincia de Gvypvzcoa de la region de Cantabria, ... 1690:engraved frontispiece caption (Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu que se venera en la Provincia de Guipuzcoa)
  • Sánchez Pérez, José Augusto. El Culto Mariano en España, 1943(Her history begins in 1469. She appeared to Rodrigo Balaztegui near Mount Alona which is 11 kilometers from the Basque town of Oñate. Upon seeing the virgin, Rodrigo says: "Aránzazu", which in Basque means "You in the thorny thicket"; she was made patron saint of Guipúzcoa in 1926; plate 94 gives her name in Spanish as "Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu patrona de Guipúzcoa" and her Basque name as "Arantzazuko Ama Birjiña Gipuzkoako zaindaria")
  • Festivalidad de la Virgen de Aranzazu, Diócesis de San Sebastián webpage, viewed Feb. 23, 2017(Each year on September 9, there is a celebration in the Santuario de Aranzazu in Guipúzcoa, Spain to give home to the patron of Guipúzcoa)
  • Diocesan Shrine & Parish of Our Lady of Aranzazu (in Philippines) WWW site, Dec. 4, 2017:(Our Lady of Aranzazu; shrine in Guipuzcoa, Spain, was built on the site where Rodrigo de Balzategui, a Basque shepherd boy, found a statue of the Virgin Mary nestled in a thorny bush with a cowbell in 1469; shrine of the Virgin of Aranzazu; devotion to the Virgin of Aranzazu started 548 years ago in Spain)