Celebration of our Lady of Chiquinquirá
Venezuela held every 18 November Day Virgen de Chiquinquirá, patron of Zulia state and Maracaibo.
In San Juan de el Hospital, we will celebrate it on Sunday 22 November with Mass to the 17:00h In honor of this Marian devotion.
We will also broadcast it through our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/IglesiaSanJuandelHospitalValencia
They are invited to the Mass all Venezuelans living in Valencia, family, friends and all who wish to participate in this feast of the Virgin.
The image of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, 'The Chinese little girl', is an oil painting on gopherwood; a 'planchette ", whose dimensions are: 26 centimeters high, by 25 wide and 3 millimeters thick. According to tradition zuliana, the "planchette" was found in 1709 a simple woman, floating on waves, when he had just washed his clothes on the shores of Lake Maracaibo.
At present the house where the discovery was made a majestic temple stands, the Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, located in the center of the city of Maracaibo and which is the "planchette" of the Virgin.
