Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels

The Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles is a Roman Catholic basilica in Costa Rica, positioned inside the city of Cartago and committed to the Virgen de Los Prados, officially called Virgen de los Angeles the Lady of the Angels. The basilica turned into built in 1639 and become partially destroyed by way of an earthquake.

The basilica has due to the fact that been restored and constitutes a unique blend of the colonial structure as well as 19th-century Byzantine fashion, the modern building dates lower back to 1939. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels is consecrated to the Virgin of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, a small illustration of the Virgin Mary carrying the toddler Jesus, stated to have been determined by way of a peasant lady in Cartago. Tradition claims that the little girl determined the small statue on a rock and took it home. The subsequent morning she determined that the statue was no longer there but returned at the rock, so she took it to the priest and he locked it in a small container. The next morning the statue became again on the rock.