Case file · Apparition / miracle
The Virgin of Candelaria appears to the Guanches
Around 1392 Guanche shepherds found a statue of the Virgin on a beach of Tenerife, a century before the Spanish conquest; Espinosa told the story in 1594.
1392 CE · 28.35, -16.37 · status: legend
The sceptical view
The image probably washed ashore from a ship or was left by missionaries.