Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, Maracaibo

The basilica enshrines a colonial wooden image made in 1709, the second colonial replica of the famed earliest cotton painting of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá.

Pope Benedict XV granted a decree of canonical coronation for the Bishop of Zulia, Arturo Celestino Álvarez on 16 July 1917.

The same Pontiff raised her shrine to the status of Minor Basilica via the Pontifical decree Exstat in Civitate in 18 May 1920.

The rite of coronation was executed on 18 November 1942, twenty five years after its approval due to delayed preparations and political turmoil.

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