Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás

Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás Nuestra Señora del Rosario de San Nicolás
Location	San Nicolás de los Arroyos Buenos Aires province,  Argentina
Date	1884, rediscovered 1983
Type	Plaster statue, crowned
Holy See approval	local ordinary, Bishop Cardelli of Roman Catholic Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos
Shrine	Sanctuary of Our Lady of Rosary of San Nicolás, Buenos Aires province,  Argentina

Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás is a title of veneration of the Virgin Mary in Catholicism associated with the phenomena of private revelation to a middle-aged housewife (beginning in the 1980s in city of San Nicolás de los Arroyos Argentina) tasked with promoting devotion to the Mother of God under this title, with an emphasis on key passages in the Bible and a particular mystical stellar symbolism. The devotional image, that of a standing Madonna offering rosary beads to the faithful, resembles that of Our Lady of Mount Carmel offering the scapular to , while differing from traditional Dominican Seat-of-Wisdom-type depictions popularized by the Order of Preachers—consecrated religious men and women following the rule of St Dominic de Guzman remembered for his renewal of lay Christian piety with rosary devotions—associated with commemoration of the victory at the Battle of Lepanto and the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (seen for example in the Italian altarpiece known as Our Lady of Pompei).

The pilgrimage site named in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás erected in San Nicolás de los Arroyos is one of the most important in Argentina.

The parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas of Bari was inaugurated in 1884 and furnished with a statue of Our Lady donated by a member of the local Confraternity of the Rosary, (promoted during the papacy of Pope Leo XIII, popularly known as The Rosary Pope, author of several encyclicals on Marian devotion under her title Queen of Peace).

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