Case file · Apparition / miracle
The Black Virgin of Montserrat
Legend says that in 880 shepherd children saw lights and heard music on the mountain of Montserrat and found an image of the Virgin in a cave that could not be moved.
880 CE · 41.59, 1.84 · status: legend
The sceptical view
The legend is recorded long after the date it gives; the present statue is a 12th-century Romanesque carving.