La Virgen de la Cabeza

Oral tradition, inherited from parents to children, tells that on the night of August 11-12, 1227, a natural shepherd from the town of Colomera (Granada), named Juan Alonso de Rivas, was guarding his flock in the vicinity from a hill nestled in the most rugged and silent of Sierra Morena, a mountain formerly called "de la cabeza", a nickname that gave fame and origin to this secular devotion. He had spent some nights listening to the tinkling of a bell, a circumstance that aroused his curiosity as well as a logical fear of the unknown, deciding to climb to the holy summit finding, in a stone concavity, the image of the Mother of God. . Before the discovery, the shepherd was kneeling and the Virgin, with such a show of devout faith, asked him to go to Andújar and report what had happened so that she would come to prostrate herself before Her and hers, her divine son. she. Lord and thus build a temple, where and according to his own voice, "wonders and wonders would be worked for the benefit of the people."