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Las Lajas Cathedral
« on: January 01, 2012, 06:53:54 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2012, 06:54:26 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2012, 06:57:37 PM »
Las Lajas Sanctuary (in Spanish Santuario de Las Lajas) is a basilica church located in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales and built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River.

The church is of Gothic revival architecture and was built from January 1, 1916 to August 20, 1949, with donations from local churchgoers, replacing an old nineteenth-century chapel. The name Laja comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to floor tiles found in the Andes Mountains. There was a claim that an apparition of the Virgin Mary was seen. The image on the stone is still visible today.

The inspiration for the church's creation was a result of a miraculous event in 1754 when an Amerindian named Maria Mueces and her deaf-mute daughter Rosa were caught in a very strong storm. The two sought refuge between the gigantic Lajas, when to Maria Mueces's surprise, her mute daughter, Rosa exclaimed "the mestiza is calling me..." and pointed to the lightning-illuminated 'painting' over the laja. The oldest miraculous event was recorded in the accounts of Fray Juan de Santa Gertrudis's journey through the southern region of the New Kingdom of Granada between 1756 and 1764. Without the benefit of sight, Fray Juan traveled through cities, fields and villages blind and on foot from Ecuador to Narino, Colombia begging people for money to build the Las Lajas 19th century chapel. At the completion of the chapel, Fray Juan miraculously regained his vision, he believed, as a result of his deep faith in the Virgin Mary of Las Lajas. In 1951 the Roman Catholic Church authorized the Nuestra Señora de Las Lajas Virgin, and it declared the sanctuary a minor basilica in 1954. --Wiki



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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2012, 06:58:25 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2012, 07:00:38 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2012, 07:02:38 PM »
Las Lajas Cathedral located inside a deep gorge/canyon of the Guaitara River near Ipiales, Colombia near the border of Ecuador has a fascinating look with a bridge on one side and a cathedral on the other side of the the gorge.

It was originally built in 1754 after an Indian woman and her deaf-mute daughter reportedly saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a cave in the canyon and miraculously the child started speaking. Since then it is a regular pilgrimage and tourism destination. The current building (the fourth since the eighteenth century), replaced a chapel dating from the nineteenth century. The height of the cathedral from its base to the tower is 100 metres and the bridge is 50 metres high and 17 metres wide and 20 metres long. The main building measures 27.50 metres in depth and 15 metres wide.

In 1954 the Roman Catholic Church declared the sanctuary a minor basilica. Recently it has been voted as one of the 7 wonders of Colombia. -- http://bbs.keyhole.com/



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« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2012, 07:05:52 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2012, 07:06:23 PM »
In the remote mountains of southwestern Colombia, the Cathedral of the Virgin of Las Lajas ranks among the most enchantingly beautiful pilgrimage shrines in the world. A scene of fairy tale splendor, its loveliness leaves one breathless. Sparkling white with soaring spires, the cathedral clings precariously to the side of a sheer cliff. The cliff wall rises above the swiftly running Guaitara river, which, in the space of less than a mile, has two sharp S curves through a steep mountain gorge. Two waterfalls flow directly from inside - not over - the jungle covered cliffs, plummeting a hundred feet to the surging river. Rains frequently come and go and lingering mists hide and reveal the church with the quickness of a magician’s hands. In concert with the ceaseless rumbling of flowing waters, church bells echo through the mountain valleys. -- http://sacredsites.com/



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« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2012, 07:17:51 PM »
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