Case file · Apparition / miracle
La Negrita of Cartago, Costa Rica
On 2 August 1635 a mixed-race woman, Juana Pereira, found a small dark stone image of the Virgin on a rock in Cartago; tradition says it returned there each time it was taken away.
1635 CE · 9.86, -83.91 · status: legend
The account
Our Lady of the Angels is Costa Rica's patron. Every 2 August a vast pilgrimage (la romería) walks to the basilica, and water from the spring by the rock is believed to heal.