Case file · Apparition / miracle
Our Lady of Coromoto
Legend says Mary appeared twice to a chief of the Cospes near Guanare, Venezuela, in 1651 and 1652, vanishing the second time and leaving a small image behind.
1652 CE · 9.04, -69.74 · status: legend
The account
The chief had resisted baptism; when he tried to grab the figure in his hut on 8 September 1652 she disappeared. Our Lady of Coromoto was declared patroness of Venezuela in 1942.
The sceptical view
The account is a conversion legend from the colonial mission era.