Case file · Apparition / miracle
Virgin of Andacollo
Tradition says a small statue of the Virgin was found in the hills of Andacollo, a mining town in Coquimbo, by an Indigenous man named Collo in the late 16th century; it is now the focus of one of Chile's largest pilgrimages.
1580 CE · -30.23, -71.08 · status: legend
The account
The image was crowned in 1901, and each December some 150,000 pilgrims and dancers gather for its feast. The year used here is an approximate setting for the finding.
The sceptical view
The discovery is known only from tradition.