The legend recounts that one evening in the 15th century, two shepherds were gathering their sheep on the slopes of Mount Jaizkibel…

Legend has it that this image belonged to St. Luke the Evangelist and was buried with him when he died. In the fourth century St. Luke's remains, with his statue, were brought to Constantinople…

There are two opinions concerning the origins of the devotion of the people of Jerez to their patroness, each with its legend…

The legend of Lloseta echoes that of nearby Lluc, which echoes many elements of Black Madonna legends around the world…

Inland and up in the Tramuntana mountains, the sanctuary of Lluc not only lays in the physical center of Majorca, but also is the spiritual center of the island…

Ean Begg dates her to the 12th century, but the Spaniards say the earliest written record of her is from the 7th century and that she is the oldest statue in Madrid…

Around the year 1292 a green marble cross was found in the hills outside the town of Montblanc. It soon became known as the miraculous Green Cross…

The story begins in the 7th century with St. Gil (c.650 - c.710), a hermit who came from Athens, Greece to the Pyrenees to live in solitude…

According to one legend, St. Luke the Evangelsit carved this statue with Mary sitting as his model and him using the carpentry tools of St. Joseph…

Legend recounts that the Black Madonna del Tura was discovered in the Cueva de Mas Caritat outside the city, in 872.

This is a story about pilgrimage - the journey of uncovering the divine…

As a nursing Madonna her title used to be Virgin of the Milk, but since 1585 she is known as Mother of God of the Sacristy…

According to legend, the Black Madonna of Lord appeared on her mountain in the 10th century…

In the Monastery of Sant Llorenç de Morunys, in the center of the village, about 40 minutes North-East of Solsona, Catalunya, about 70 cm

This is one of those interesting Black Madonnas with white Baby Jesus, the Yin and Yang of popular Catholicism, if you will.

This Madonna is considered the masterpiece of early Gothic sculpture. Gilabert, a great artist born in1163 in Toulouse, France, fashioned her for the monastery Santa Maria de Solsona…

This statue washed up in Tenerife at the end of the fourteenth century, shortly before the Canary Islands were occupied by Spain (1402 – 1496) and when the native…

The story of Our Lady of the Pillar begins in the year 40 A.D. with one of the twelve apostles. James the Greater, reputably…

After a fire in 1465 this gothic standing mother and child replaced a 9th-10th century Romanesque Seat of Wisdom Madonna lost in the flames. Baby Jesus holds a bird in his left hand…

Black Madonna of Sonogno (most beautiful village of Switzerland) a miracle working copy of Our Lady of Loreto. The previous statue was burnt as a remnant of Pagan Goddess worship by a priest in the 1920’s. Apparently a common sentiment among Swiss clergy around that time. The furious villagers got rid of the priest and replace their Dark Mother. Fresco is what remains of her older incarnation.