A Traveller's Eye, A Thinker's Heart
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Santuario de Nuestra Senora de Las Lajas is located seven kilometres from Ipiales in southwest Colombia. Built between 1916 and 1948 in a valley on the Guaitara River, it attracts pilgrims from all over Colombia and abroad – one of most visited religious sanctuaries in the Americas.
One shrine is to an Amerindian named “Maria Mueces” and her deaf-mute daughter “Rosa”. Rosa saw the Virgin Mary in a cave here in 1754 and suddenly spoke a few words.
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A Traveller's Eye, A Thinker's Heart
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