Nuestra Señora de Valvanera (Materias-Términos)

Work cat.: Imagen Iris de hermosura, de fecundidad, y duracion, N. Señora de Valvanera ..., 1725: title page (N. Señora de Valvanera)

Sánchez Pérez, José Augusto. El Culto Mariano en España, 1943: p. 422-423 (Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, Patron of La Rioja, traditionally believed to be an image made by St. Luke the apostle which was brought to Spain from Palestine by Onesimus and Gerotheus, disciples of St. Peter, exposing her for cult worship in a small chapel of a Valley called the Valley of Veneras, which today is called Valvanera. The entire Valley was peppered with caves and hermitages inhabited by ascetics. Upon learning that the Muslims were approaching Navarra, many Christians fled. There was an was an elderly hermit named Arturo among the hermits who when he saw his companions were fleeing and that they were abandoning the Mother of God, he went to the hermitage to beseech the Virgin to give him motivation and wits to hide her image from the Muslims. After his prayer, he took the image and with it, ascended to the heights of the mountain where he saw an oak in whose trunk he saw an opening where he could hide her. He placed the image and a several relics which he had also gathered in the sanctuary and when he went to cover the opening in the oak tree, he saw that it had sealed it self up on its own)

Spanish Wikipedia, viewed May 16, 2017 (Virgen de Valvanera; her feast day is the September 7th and 8th)

Regis University Library WWW site, Dec. 4, 2017: Santo Collection: Titles of Mary (Nuestra Señora de Valvanera; Our Lady of Valvanera; feast day: Sept. 8 or 10 or 23; Nov. 21)

La Rioja tourismo WWW site, Dec. 4, 2017: Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera (Virgin of Valvanera)