December 19
Virgen del Carmen, Santiago, Chile
Although Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was not declared patron of Chile until 1923, devotion to her has been strongly tied to Chilean nationalism ever since the liberators of Chile, San Martin and O'Higgins, credited their 1818 victory to her. So in the capital, Santiago, the Virgin's celebration was moved in 1971 from its traditional date of July 16 to the last Sunday in September, when a Day of Prayer for Chile follows the national holiday of September 18. Her wooden statue, imported from France in 1822, resides in Chile’s first parish church, El Sagrario, adjacent to the Cathedral. It was canonically crowned December 19, 1926. On the last Sunday of September it processes through the packed streets with great splendor. (Information and image from the Archdiocese's website, www.iglesiadesantiago.cl.)Also commemorated this date:
 | Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Rosario de la Paz, La Paz, El Salvador (December 11-19) |
| Our Lady of Hope, Candolim, North Goa, Goa, India |
| Madonna di Jesu, Bocchigliero, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy. Shrine made a diocesan sanctuary, 1954. Feast August 5. |