Category: Wandering Images

On 5 Aug. 1220, Our Lady appeared to a shepherdess as a dove [App?] asking for the building of a temple, in a grotto inside a boulder. The girl is …

Priest is told in a dream to go to the beach of Belem, where he would find an image of Our Lady that he should take to the convent of …

Fight for the ownership of the image between the villages of Sobral and Pala. A bald man (from Sobral) finds the image inside a chestnut tree. After being taken to …

Image is found near the hamlet of Mont’Alto, 1500 metres high. When they build a provisional chapel much further down (where there were more building stones), “she” disappears to reappear …

Friars of the community of Loreto took the image to their monastery of Paylo-Pelle” […] and the image reappeared in its original chapel (belonging to the village community)

An image of the Lady appears on a mastic tree (aroeira), near a fountain, and it is transferred to a stand, near the tree. As the devotion grows, a church is …

Image St. Leocadia is found on a mound of loose stones, and reappears on it instead of remaining in the chapel where she is taken. Intrigued villagers search under the …

An image appears in a thicket of trees, inside an oak tree, on a hill. Local people were first attracted by the sound of a hand bell, but couldn’t find …

Image of Our Lady appears on a huge olive tree, and disappears as soon as one attempts to fetch it her and take it to the local church. People take …

The image was called the Old Lady and was worshipped in very old chapel. When the people tried to move it into a new church, the image moved back to …

12th cent. miraculous image of Our Lady is kept in a chapel looked after by a hermit. King Sancho I has the image transferred to the church of a new …

An image of Our Lady is found on a boulder on the hill of the now ruined castle of Aljustrel. Because it soon becomes the source of wonders, the priest …

The image is found on a boulder/ stone, in a height within a farm. It was taken to the church, but it reappeared on the boulder (twice). The chapel was …

In 1490, the image is seen by a woman on a laurel tree, in a grove of those trees; she tells the parish priest who brings it to the church; …

Fishermen find the image on a rock in a deserted place; the image is transferred to the church but returns to the rock, where a temple is built. She is …

Tradition has it that the image disappeared from the parish of Almarge to be found on the trunk of a pine tree. But the author suspects that the image was …

The image appears near a fountain (in the first half of the 16th cent.). The owners of the estate take the image to their house but it vanishes from there …

The image is found in a well. As it occasionally disappears to help fishermen at sea, a second image was made to replace it.

A little shepherdess finds an image of Our Lady in a thicket of young oak trees. The image asks the girl if she will delouse her. Eventually the image …

A long time ago someone who went after some cow or so and he found an image of Our Lady of Deliverance at the foot of the hill. He took …

Ha aqui uma imagem de Nossa Senhora que, segundo a tradição, appareceu em uma olaia (arvore). Levaram-a para a egreja, mas ella fugiu para a olaia.
    Quantas vezes a …

Ha duas tradições da origem d’este sanctuario [Sanctuario de Nossa Senhora da Piedade].

Segundo uma – a imagem de Nossa Senhora da Piedade, appareceu n’este mesmo monte, junto a …

Há duas Alcaria Altas. Uma é Alcaria Alta da Serra, ali ao pé de Cachopo, a outra é Alçaria Alta do Campo, chamam-lhes os selvagens. Sabe porquê? …

Consta-se que em Aljustrel, portanto, nos tempos remotos, nos tempos passados, existe hoje e ainda é uma capela, que é a Senhora do Castelo que é considerada a padroeira …

A man finds a crucifix in the water of a "caldeira", a lake in the bottom of an old crater. He took it home but the next day the statue was …

Queriam erguer uma capela para a N. Sra. Da Paz, mas queriam erguê-la noutro sítio, e a N. Sra., não sei se não queria; e havia lá mais em baixo …

Consta que um dia uma mulher ao deslocar-se à zona onde hoje existe a Capela, para trazer um pouco de “caeira”, (calcário um pouco arenoso com que se regularizava o …

Lá pelo século dezasseis, ainda não havia uma ermida nos Anjos, mas as pessoas tinham uma grande vontade de construir um pequeno monumento, naquele lugar em que Gonçalo Velho e …

An image of Our Lady appeared near the top of a mountain then called Viola in the place of Caminho Velho. The parish priest took to the church, but the image disappeared …

Em certas povoações perto de Fornos de Algodres conta-se uma pitoresca lenda sobre a origem da igreja de Vila Chã.
 
Num pequeno povoado não longe da serra existia …