February 13
Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Rute, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain
By order of Pope Pius XI, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was proclaimed patron of the town of Rute in southern Spain on February 13, 1924. Her beloved image goes back to the late 1600s, when Luisa Roldán (La Roldana) of Seville carved the head and hands. Made to be dressed, the statue did not have a proper body until the 1960s. It occupies a neo-baroque setting over the main altar, also of the 1960s. Rute honors its patron several times a year. The anniversary celebration lasts three days, culminating on February 13 with mass, presentations to the Chief of the Brotherhood and the Fiesta Queen of gifts made for the Virgin, and a ceremony of kissing the scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Her liturgical feast day July 16 is the focus of another three-day celebration. On the last Sunday of June, the traslado is held, when the statue goes in procession through the neighborhood to the main parish church of Santa Catalina Mártir. Another triduum is celebrated around the feast of the Assumption, August 14-16.
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Also commemorated this date:
 | Virgen de la Carrodilla, Carrodilla, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Patron of vintners. Statue, crowned February 13, 1938, tours wineries in late Feb. before provincial wine festival. |
| Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Fátima, Estanzuelas, Usulután, El Salvador. Town's patronal fiestas include night procession February 12, mass with bishop February 13. |
| Madonna della Libertà, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy, patron of Bakers Association. Painting in Basilica of St. Anthony crowned, 1966. |
| Madonna dell’Apollinare, Rome, Italy. Hidden fresco found intact, 1647. |
| Beata Vergine Assunta, Guasila, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Church consecrated, 1903. Festa August 15. |
| Madonna della Sfida, Barletta, Bari, Apulia, Italy (Madonna of the Joust). Italian knights defeated French knights in a joust, 1503. Festa August 15. |
| St. Mary, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Original wooden Anglican church consecrated, 1887, superseded in 1895 by a larger brick church, now the Anglican cathedral. |