COSTA RICA
A WELL WITH HOLY WATER IN CARTAGO CATHEDRAL
The cathedral stands in the eastern part of town, on the rock, where on August 2nd of 1635, small stone figure of Black Virgin (popular called La Negrita) appeared for Juana Pereira-a young mulatto wood gatherer. (Legend has it that, the figure, on finding it by girl, was put by a priest in local church, from which two-times dissapeared and back to the same place in the forest. Its dissapearing stopped after building on that place a chapel. Inside there is a room full of silver medalions attesting to La Negrita`s miracles. Behind the cathedral there is a well from where pilgrims collect holy water. It`s surrounded by small 8-columned dome. On every year, around a half a million of pilgrims from all over Central America come to basilica to worship on August 2nd. The first cathedral was destroyed by the earthquake in 1926 and was soon rebuilt in Bizantine style.
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