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La Negrita 'Virgen of the Angels'

  • Cast Resin Sculpture

The story of la negrita: there was a young mestiza girl named Juana Pereira who was looking for firewood and led herself to a stream. There, atop a boulder she found a stone that seemingly looked like a doll. She brought it home but it disappeared. She then went back to the steam and there she found it on top of the boulder. She took it back home once again and repeatedly, it disappeared and was found on the same boulder again and again.

Thinking it was supernatural, Juana then brought it to their local priest named Father Baltazar de Grado. Because of this event that they called a ‘miracle’, a church was built around the boulder where the little Juana first found La Negrita.

Now La Negrita is kept inside a shrine in Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles in Cartago.

Condition:
Good, As Shown

Size:
6" Height