An impoverished village in a largely rural area, though it has a venerable history and is a well-known site of pilgrimage.

This was recognized as a miraculous preservation by the Jesuit priest Miklós Horváth, who developed Andocs into a place of pilgrimage between 1665 and 1681.

In the 17th century already several miraculous incidents involving the "Mary of Andocs" were recorded; to this day, the statue is dressed every second Friday of the month.

"[4] A Franciscan monastery was built in 1721 but burned down a few years later, though the Gothic chapel next to it survived intact.

This was another miraculous phenomenon and the chapel became the sanctuary of the current church, which was extended with a Baroque nave and consecrated in 1747, the occasion of Countess Széchenyi's donation.