Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura
| Our Lady of Guadalupe in Extremadura, Spain |
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| Location | Caceres, Spain |
| Type | Marian apparition |
| Holy See approval | 12 October 1928, during the Canonical coronation granted by Pope Pius XI |
| Shrine | Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe |
The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe was the most important Marian shrine in the medieval kingdom of Castile. It is revered in the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, in today's Cáceres province of the Extremadura autonomous community of Spain.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of three Black Madonnas in Spain. The statue was canonically crowned on 12 October 1928 by Pope Pius XI with a crown designed and crafted by Father Felix Granda.
It should not be confused with Our Lady of Guadalupe, enshrined in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico.
The shrine houses a statue reputed to have been carved by Luke the Evangelist and given to Saint Leander, archbishop of Seville, by Pope Gregory I. According to local legend, when Seville was taken by the Moors in 712, a group of priests fled northward and buried the statue in the hills near the Guadalupe River in Extremadura. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Virgin appeared one day to a humble cowboy named Gil Cordero who was searching for a missing animal in the mountains. Cordero claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him and ordered him to ask priests to dig at the site of the apparition. Excavating priests rediscovered the hidden statue and built a small shrine around it which evolved into the great Guadalupe monastery.
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