Our Lady of the Rosary,
San Nicolás, Argentina

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About

Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás is, in Catholicism, a title of veneration of the Virgin Mary associated with a reported private revelation to Gladys Quiroga de Motta, a middle-aged housewife, beginning in the 1980s in city of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina. Quiroga said that she was tasked with promoting devotion to the Mother of God under this title, with an emphasis on key passages in the Bible and a particular mystical stellar symbolism. The devotional image, that of a standing Madonna offering rosary beads to the faithful, resembles that of Our Lady of Mount Carmel offering the scapular to St. Simon Stock, while differing from traditional Dominican Seat-of-Wisdom-type depictions of Our Lady of the Rosary popularized by the Order of Preachers.

Location

San Nicolás de los Arroyos Buenos Aires province, Argentina

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Timeline

  • 1884

    First mass in the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary
  • Sep 23, 1983
    In San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Gladys Quiroga de Motta has her first supernatural experience
  • Sep 28, 1983
    Gladys Quiroga sees a second apparition and tells close family and friends
  • Oct 7, 1983
    Gladys prays to Our Lady and receives a vision of a church

  • Oct, 1983

    Gladys tells her priest, Reverend Fr. Carlos Pérez, about her visions
  • Oct 17, 1983
    Gladys goes to the Cathedral of St. Nicholas of Bari and recognizes the image from her apparitions, Our Lady of the Rosary, in a storage room
  • Nov 19, 1983
    Gladys is informed of her mission: "You will become the bridge of union. Proclaim my words."
  • Nov 24, 1983
    A ray of light indicated to Gladys the location of a future church
  • Nov 27, 1983
    Our Lady asks Gladys for the new location to be "along the bank of the Paraná"
  • Dec 2, 1984
    Our Lady tells Gladys to "have a metal struck in my image, invoking the title of Mary of the Rosary of St Nicholas and on the obverse, the Holy Trinity with seven stars."
  • Jun 13, 1985
    10,000 books are printed with the messages of Our Lady of the Rosary of St. Nicholas in Rosario, Santa Fe
  • Sep 25, 1985
    Our Lady explains the significance of the seven stars: they are the seven graces that her son Jesus Christ will grant whomever carries the medal on their chest
  • Feb 25, 1986
    First pilgrimage and celebration of the Holy Mass in El Campito, the location of the new sanctuary

  • Jun, 1987

    2.3 million copies of images of the statue of Our Lady has been disseminated
  • May 22, 2016
    Most Rev. Hector Cardelli declared that the apparition of Our Lady of the Rosary were "supernatural in character" and "worthy of belief"