One says that” a brown” woman (she could be India, mestiza or colored person) was gathering firewood in a scrub near her house the morning of the 2 of August, when she found on a stone an image of the Virgin with the Boy in arms. It was a stone statue of about twenty centimeters of stop. Juana Pereira gathered it and I keep it in a box in its house. Nevertheless, twice but it found the sculpture in the same stone where it had appeared it and when wanting to keep it in its house, thinking that it was another image, it noticed that no longer it was. Before this fact, the woman was scared and gone to look for the priest of Carthage, to that told the happened thing him and I give the image to him. The priest I keep it in a box, but on the following day she appeared again on the stone; then the priest, accompanied by several people gathered it and I keep it, but to the other day he returned to appear in the same stone. Then they included/understood that the Virgin wanted to have her house in that place. It was baptized to him with the name of Virgin of Los Angeles, because the 2 of August franciscanos celebrate the festividad of our Mrs. of Los Angeles.
Just a short time later, the neighbors decided to make a hermitage in the place, nevertheless, they were pawned on making a worthy temple of her, cost what cost. One knows that in the 1681 temple practically was finished. Unfortunately, the church I am destroyed few years after released, with the earthquake of principles of January of 1715.
The faithfuls organized themselves to raise the temple for the second time. This second church was finished between 1723 and 1727. Later, little by little they were extending it and embellishing, but I am destroyed after the earthquake of the 7 of May of 1822. Two years later returned to organize themselves to initiate the works of the construction of another temple. Then it happened another earthquake the 2 of September of 1841, that damage leaves from the structure, but could be repaired. Nevertheless, the earthquake of the 4 of May of 1910 destroyed it completely. Once again, the devotee ones of the Virgin of Los Angeles were organized to initiate the works of the present basilica, that I am finished in 1930. This structure has antiseismic bases, that have resisted many tremors and even the 1924 earthquake, when the temple still was in construction. The Basilica serves from refuge the image and is visited by thousands of faithfuls.
Father Baltazar de Grado was the priest of Carthage at the moment of the appearance of the Virgin of Los Angeles and when dying a census made a donation so that with its product every year of made the celebration “as usual”.
Some historical data
| 2 of August of 1635 | Finding of the Image |
| April of 1782 | Proclamation like Pattern of Carthage |
| August of 1782 | First happened to the Central Parish of Carthage |
| August of 1824 | First robbery of the Image of the Virgin. Given back 4 days later |
| September of 1824 | Declared by the Constituent Assembly like Official Pattern of Costa Rica |
| Year of 1833 | With occasion dela Civil War of Liga was called to him: “Princess of La Paz” |
| March of 1862 | Pope Pío IX, grants to perpetualidad plenary indulgence that visits the Sanctuary of Los Angeles |
| November of 1888 | Second robbery of all the atuendos and clothes of the Image |
| Year of 1912 | The construction of the present Sanctuary of Los Angeles begins |
| April of 1926 | Solemn Coronation of the Image of the Virgin as Queen of Costa Rica |
| Year of 1935: | Celebration of Tricentenario of the Finding of the Image |
| Julio of 1935 | Its Sanctity Pío XI elevates the Sanctuary to rank of Basilica. |
| April of 1944 | Erection of the Sanctuary like “Parish of Our Mrs. of Los Angeles”. |
| April of 1944 | The “greater Altar” is declared privilege altar |
| May of 1950 | Third robbery of the Image of the Virgin. It is found eight days later. |
| Year of 1956 | Coronation of the Image of the Virgin as “It reigns of the Workers”. |
| May of 1960 | The Venerated Image of the Virgin for the conclusion of the “Great National Mission” and the Episcopal Consecration of Mons. is brought Carlos Humberto Rodriguez Quirós, IV Archbishop of San jOse. |
| August of 1976 | Celebration of the 50 years of the Solemn Coronation of the Image of the Virgin. |
| August of 1979 | Taking of possession of Mons. Roman Arrieta Villalobos like V Archbishop of San jOse |
| Year of 1985 | Solemn Celebration of the 350 years of the Finding of the Image. |
Historical data of the property
Lic. Raul Fco. Aryans Sanchez - Historian and others
The Property San Rosa, was considered from mid century XVIII like one of the most important of the region guanacasteca, by its extension and resources whereupon it counted. Santa Rosa, was one of the greatest properties and old of the country, from 1663 data of their existence like site are had where through the years and up to 1966 agricultural and cattle activities were developed.
From her beginnings, Santa Rosa was a site more within the great amount of property that included/understood the property. She was until in 1863, being owner Don Inocente Districts Muñoz, who registers the site Santa Rosa in the Public Registry with the name of Property Santa Rosa. The property was founded between years 1740 and 1750. Its name is old, because it is mentioned to him already in 1751. At that time Santa Rosa and the Pelón belonged to a same proprietor, the captain Juan Antonio Santos of San Pedro, in their lands 1500 head of cattle pastaban and annually thirty mules and one hundred thirty colts shod themselves that way of. The property workings consisted of the culture of the maize and the cheese manufacture.
In 1663 the general measurement is made for the first time of which they would be the lands of the Property Santa Rosa, this to request of Don Juan Martin de Villa Faña, who had requested those earth to Reina of Spain. Later they valued and they were transferred to the Lieutenant Don Joseph de Rivas, (1736). Other proprietors have been: Juan Antonio Santos of San the Galician Pedro (1751), Ramon Go'mez (1856), family Sacaza Districts (1895) and Luis Roberto (last owner). They inhabited the main house of the Property located in the south-western skirts of the hill Santa Rosa.
The Large house of the Property Santa Rosa was constructed towards 1750, since in the protocols it is begun to him to mention as of 1751, being its proprietor the Spanish captain Juan Santos of San Pedro.
At the beginning of century XIX, the Holy descendants of the captain of San Pedro sold the properties, acquiring the one of Santa Rosa a rich priest seated in Liberia, that inhabited the large house only the week ends, doing to erect oratorio at the end of the runner of the North side, towards the east, where he celebrated dominical mass for all the neighbors of the other properties.
In the middle of the decade of 1830 Santa Rosa Gutiérrez Lizaurzábal was acquired by Don Agustín, who was father-in-law of general Jose Joaquin Mora, expeditionary Army Commander-in-Chief during the National Campaign of 1856 and of the battle fought in the Property Santa Rosa, which knew perfectly.
In the year the 1849 children of Don Agustín Gutiérrez sell the property to the Carthaginian landowner Don Ramon Go'mez, who was their proprietor at the time of the filibustera invasion the 20 of March of 1856. All the proprietors whom Santa Rosa had inhabited it temporarily single, thanks to which no of the proprietors was in the large house when the forces arrived from colonel Schlessinger, capturing by surprise four young men of the property and several women, assassinating to three of the men, whose corpses were found within the large house by the Costa Rican soldiers when finalizing the battle.
The battle staged in Santa Rosa in 1856 did not affect the structure of the large house in spite of the intense thing of the combat. The main factor so that the building did not suffer damages was without a doubt the short time interval in quél Costa Rican army won to the filibusteros, which caused that it was not necessary to set afire the house to evacuate to the enemy nor whom the firings of the tubes destroyed target in the walls or the ceiling.
The family Go'mez maintained the property until beginnings of years 1890, when they sell it, coming the new owners to demolish the old large house to such raise to another one on lime plinths and song. The house was finished in 1895, conserving itself to the present time as original elements of the battle of 1856 the stone launching slips, the plinths, the stone walls that form the lateral corrals to the house, the bordering ways and wooded places.
The stone corrals are located near the Large house, construídos in the year of 1700 (approximately), in them the rutting place can be still observed, and following towards the south the immersion bath, in which they bathed and they cured to the cattle.
The 9 of March of the 2001 Large house were destroyed in a fire, and were recovered to their original form of 1895.
the South of Costa Rica (Gulf of Nicoya, Tempisque river, Salto river and a line that united to this one with the beginning of the Drainage or San Juan river) to the east. This region was very independent; generally, it depended in the civilian and the administrative thing on the Post of captain-general of Guatemala. Nevertheless, due to his proximity with the Costa Rican towns of Puntarenas, It scatters, Bagaces and the Canes, it had obtained great identification with our country. In addition, in the 1812 Party of Nicoya was united to our country, so that we completed the population necessary and thus to be able to have a representative in Cortes of Cadiz, in Spain. Of this form, our country could send to the presbítero Florencio of the Castle that had a great participation in defense of the rights of the natives.
the province “Of the Mother country by Our Will”, because they were the inhabitants of the province who decided to annex themselves to Costa Rica.
