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Our Lady of Charity Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre
Our Lady of Charity, the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre is a part of the Cuban culture and a heritage of
(Spanish) Catholicism in Cuba. The myth of the Virgen de la Caridad tells that during a
storm, three sailors in a boat prayed for their rescue and found an icon of a mother and
child figurine. When the the statue was pulled out of the water, the sea became immediately
calm and they heard a voice saying: "I am the Virgen de la Caridad".
The Virgen del Cobre was declared the Patroness of Cuba by Pope Benedict in 1916.
The shrine of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre is shown in Cuba's only basilica,
built in 1927 near the city of El Cobre outside Santiago de Cuba.
Ernest Hemingway and La Virgen del Cobre
After
Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize of Literature for his novel " The Old Man and the Sea"
he offered his prize to, the Virgen del Cobre, Patroness of Cuba.
The place is not only visited by catholics, for other pelgrims and
Santeria followers the
place has a great symbolic and mystic value.
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Our Lady of Charity, the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre is a part of the Cuban culture and a heritage of
(Spanish) Catholicism in Cuba. The myth of the Virgen de la Caridad tells that during a
storm, three sailors in a boat prayed for their rescue and found an icon of a mother and
child figurine. When the the statue was pulled out of the water, the sea became immediately
calm and they heard a voice saying: "I am the Virgen de la Caridad".
