Case file · Apparition / miracle
Santa Marian Kamalen comes ashore
Pious legend says a statue of the Virgin Mary was found on the shore at Merizo, Guam, guarded by two crabs carrying candles; some link it to the Spanish galleon wrecked at Cocos Island in 1690.
1690 CE · 13.26, 144.67 · status: legend
The account
The statue, hidden during the Japanese occupation in 1941 and returned in 1945, is now enshrined in the Dulce Nombre de Maria cathedral in Hagåtña and is Guam's patroness.
The sceptical view
The origin of the statue is unknown; the crab story is pious legend.