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Nuestra Señora de Luján, Luján, Mendoza, Argentina
Commemorated on May 8
round the year 1630, when a man from Portugal called Farías asked a friend of his to send him an image of the Immaculate Conception directly from Brazil so that he could place it in a chapel that he was building in Sumampa, Argentina. A short time later, he received the offer of two statues: one was the Immaculate Conception and the other was of Mary as the Mother of God. Once the two statues were finished, the drivers placed them in a wagon and then set off on their northbound journey. They stopped to spend the night on the shores of the Luján River; however, the next morning, they realized that the mules could not move the wagon, even when they got rid of some of the weight. Only by strenuously taking out the box that contained the statue of the Immaculate Conception were they able to move the wagon. The drivers believed that this incident was a sign from Our Lady, telling them that she wanted to be venerated there.
The man left the statue in the house of a settler, who had a black slave and who then, for more than forty years, was the guardian and curator of the statue. He built a brick chapel and more and more pilgrims began to arrive in that place to pray the Rosary before the statue. One day a sick missionary came to Lujan, and was miraculously healed, and since then established himself as a priest to assist the pilgrims. In 1763 he built a large church was then elevated to a basilica in 1887. Lujan is one of the most frequented places of pilgrimage in the world.
Source: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/engone.html#arg
History
The story of Our Lady of Lujan, patron of Argentina, goes back to 1630, when Antonio Farías Sáa, a rancher based in Sumampa in the north-central part of the country, decided to build a chapel to the Virgin on his estate. He asked a friend in Brazil to send him a statue of the Immaculate Conception. The friend sent two, one with the child Jesus and one without. When the images arrived in Buenos Aires, they were placed in a cart which left in a caravan for Sumampa. The party stopped on the banks of the river Lujan 42 miles from Buenos Aires, at the Rosendo Ranch. The next day when they started to leave, the cart with the statues wouldn't move, even after the rest of its load was taken out and more oxen hitched. The images remained in the bottom of the cart in two small boxes. The teamsters removed one, and it still didn't move. They put it back and took out the other, and the cart moved normally. Then the men realized that a miracle had occurred. On seeing that one Virgin didn't want to go farther, they took her to don Rosendo's hacienda. The family was moved to see the image — the childless statue — and installed it in their house. The news spread throughout the region to Buenos Aires. Pilgrims began traveling to the spot, so don Rosendo built a small chapel, where the statue stayed until 1674. In the 1700s, the church of Our Lady of Lujan became the nucleus of a growing community. On May 8, 1887, she was crowned by order of Leo XIII, and her feast established on the Saturday before the fourth Sunday after Easter. A larger sanctuary was built, which Pius II gave the title of Basilica in 1930. The 15" terracotta statue stands in a protective silver sheath, covered in turn by robes in the national colors of white and sky blue. Now the principal celebration takes place on the coronation anniversary, May 8.
Information from "Efemérides – Día de Nuestra Señora de Luján," Portal Educativo de la Provincia de Mendoza, www.mendoza.edu.ar/efemerid/5_lujan.htm and the shrine's site, www.basilicadelujan.org.ar. Photo by Patricio Burraco, 2007, from "Virgen de Luján Photo," TrekEarth, www.trekearth.com.
http://www.wherewewalked.info/feasts/05-May/05-08.htm
Information from "Efemérides – Día de Nuestra Señora de Luján," Portal Educativo de la Provincia de Mendoza, www.mendoza.edu.ar/efemerid/5_lujan.htm and the shrine's site, www.basilicadelujan.org.ar. Photo by Patricio Burraco, 2007, from "Virgen de Luján Photo," TrekEarth, www.trekearth.com.
http://www.wherewewalked.info/feasts/05-May/05-08.htm
Prayers
Realmente es justo y necesario,
Padre todopoderoso,
que entonemos siempre en tu honor
himnos y cantos de alabanza,
especialmente por el amor sin límites
que quisiste manifestarnos en María, Virgen y Madre:
Una humilde imagen de su limpia y pura Concepción
se quedó milagrosamente en la Villa de Luján
como signo de su maternal protección
sobre tu pueblo peregrinante en la Argentina,
para que llevados de su mano
podamos llegar al trono del Cordero inocente
que quita el pecado del mundo,
Cristo Jesús, tu Hijo y nuestro único Salvador.It is truly right and just,
Father all-powerful,
that in your honor we should always sing
hymns and songs of praise,
especially for the boundless love
that you wished to show us in Mary, Virgin and Mother:
A humble image of her stainless and pure Conception
remained miraculously in the town of Lujan
as a sign of her maternal protection
over your pilgrim people in Argentina,
so that brought by her hand
we may reach the throne of the innocent Lamb
who takes away the sin of the world,
your Son and our only Savior.