OUR LADY OF APARECIDA 8 inch Statue Brazil, Portugal Mary Dark Madonna New

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OUR LADY OF APARECIDA 8 inch Statue Brazil, Portugal Mary Dark Madonna New :
$22.95

LAST ONE !! I found this while looking for St Gonzaga yesterday. I may even have one more but not sure. They all come in brown boxes with only a number label.Here is a brand new 8 inch statue of OUR LADY OF APARACIDA. SHE IS THE DARK VERSION OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in Brazil and Portugal. Buyer to pay Shipping and handling . I take PayPal. Thank you for looking at my ad. Limiter to stock on hand. International buyer receives a $5 refund when label is printed via PayPal. All International purchases are NOT INSURED and are NOT RETURNABLE. Post Office will not insure First Class International and we do not either.

According to the account of the discovery of the statue in October 1717, Dom Pedro de Almeida,Count of Assumarand Governor of the Province ofSão PauloandMinas Gerais, was passing through the area ofGuaratinguetá, a small city in theParaíba rivervalley,[7]during a trip toVila Rica, an important gold mining site.

As the people of Guaratinguetá decided to hold a feast in his honour, three fishermen, Domingos Garcia, João Alves, and Filipe Pedroso went down to the Paraíba waters to fish. The fishermen prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception that God would grant a good catch. The fishermen, having a run of bad luck, cast their nets in the River Paraiba and dragged up a headless statue of the Virgin Mary. They also salvaged the head and, according to the legend, then netted plenty of fish.[4]After cleaning the statue, they found that it was a black version of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.[1]Legend has it that when the fishermen recovered the body, then the head, the slender figure of the Aparecida Virgin became so heavy that they couldn\'t budge it.[2]

The fishermen named the statueNossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida(English: Our Lady of the Appeared Conception).[8][not in citation given]Neighbors began to venerate the statue, which came to be known as Our Lady of Aparecida, and devotion grew. The first chapel was built in 1745.[4]