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marian
anniversaries december
Sunday after December 8
Vulnerata, Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain
The Rosary Confraternity of Cádiz revered this statue of the Madonna and Child
in the Cathedral there until the
summer of 1596, when a rampaging army of English and Dutch soldiers
dragged it from a chapel where people were praying for deliverance from
the invaders. Striking the image with stones and pikes, the marauders cut away the
child, smashing it completely, and left the battered mother in the plaza.
On July 14 the English burned Cádiz and its cathedral, and the next day
they set sail, taking with them many of the city's leaders as hostages.
The head of the Spanish armada, Martín de Padilla, Count of Santa Gadea,
took the damaged Virgin to his villa near Madrid. But on September 8,
1600, it moved in solemnity to the College of St. Alban in Valladolid, at
the request of English refugees studying for the priesthood there who
wished to make amends for the acts of their countrymen. The College
observes the Sunday (or sometimes the Saturday) after December 8,
Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as a special memorial to the Wounded
Lady.
Some sources:
 | Nicholas Schofield, "Our Lady Vulnerata," Roman
Miscellany, romanmiscellany.blogspot.com/2007/03/our-lady-vulnerata.html |
| J. M. Travieso, "Historias de Valladolid: Virgo Vulnerata, de
la profanación a una renovada," 10 de diciembre de 2009, Domus
Pucelae, domuspucelae.blogspot.com (photo by Concha Moretón) |
| "College History - English College - Valladolid,"
www.valladolid.org |
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Also commemorated this date:
| Nossa Senhora do Ó, Mosqueiro, Pará, Norte, Brazil. Círio, procession (2nd
Sunday). |
| Virgen del Carmen, San Luis del Carmen, Chalatenango, El Salvador. Fiestas
(2nd week). |
| Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Aluva, Ernakulam, Kerala, India, St. Dominic
Syrian Church. Procession. |
| Virgen de Itatí, Villa Ansina, Tacuarembo, Uruguay. Fiesta Gaucha (2nd
weekend). |
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