Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Cádiz, Andalucia, Spain
In 1755, when the big earthquake hit Lisbon, the citizens of Cadiz marched to the sea with the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary to ward off the tsunami. In thanks for her protection, they proclaimed her patron of the city. The Confraternity of Our Lady of the Rosary in Cadiz has honored four images since its founding in 1591. The first was a statue in the Cathedral, Lady Vulnerata, battered by English invaders in 1596 and moved in 1600 to the English College for priests in Valladolid. A replacement made in 1598 for the Dominican monastery church was burned in the Civil War. Another statue was substituted, but devotees disliked its red hair and blue eyes, so in 1943 an image by Seville sculptor Manuel José Rodríguez Fernández Andes, better resembling the earlier Madonna, replaced it. On May 4, 1947, Pablo Cardinal Segura, Archbishop of Seville, crowned the new statue. The image goes in procession annually on October 7, Feast of the Rosary, and on Corpus Christi.
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