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Today we invite you to a beautiful city walk in Candelaria in Tenerife in the Canary Islands in Spain.
Candelaria is the religious capital of Tenerife, the Basilica of Candelaria is located here, where the sculpture of the Black-faced Virgin of Candelaria, sacred to all the islanders, is kept. Today, her image is a symbol of the Canary Islands.
On the square of the Holy Patroness of the Canary Islands (Spanish: Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias), near the basilica, you can see majestic bronze sculptures. These are the nine kings of the Guanches who ruled over nine regions of the island of Tenerife until the conquest by the Spaniards in the 15th century.
Every year on February 2 and August 15, pilgrims from all over the island come to Candelaria to pray to their shrine. An interesting legend tells how the place became the holy of holies.
Approximately in the interval from 1392 to 1401, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, a wooden sculpture of the Madonna and Child was discovered by two natives. From a long stay in the water, she darkened. Most likely, this sculpture was from a sunken ship. Usually such figurines carved from wood in images were installed above the breakwater of the ship, on a latrine, calling them a latrine figure.
The Guanches found her and tried to touch her with a stick, but one of them was wounded. Returning to the village and telling about what happened. They came to that place with help and tried to touch her again, when the wounded native touched the Virgin, his wound was healed. Considering that this woman with a child was supernatural, she was transferred and installed in the cave of Achbiniko (Achbinico), which became a shrine for them.
When the Spaniards conquered the island of Tenerife, they found the Black-faced Madonna and decided to deliver it to the capital, but nothing came of this venture, the farther they moved away from the cave, the heavier the shrine became. They left her on the shore and then returned to the cave. On November 7, 1826, during a rain and a storm, the figurine from the cave disappeared without a trace, perhaps even washed into the ocean.
In 1827, the monks commissioned a copy of the Black-faced Virgin of Candelaria from the Spanish sculptor Fernando Estevez de Salas, and to this day they worship her in the Basilica.
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