[2][3][4] According to the legend, when Saint Euphrasius came to Spain in the first century, he brought with him an image of the Virgin Mary to which he showed devotion.

[5]) In the 8th century, when Andujar was occupied by Moorish forces, the image was hidden atop one of the highest and inaccessible hills of the Sierra Morena, the Cerro del Cabezo.

In the thirteenth century, a shepherd named Juan Alonso de Rivas, from Colomera, was watching over the livestock belonging to a neighbor from Arjona.

[6] The Pilgrimage of the Virgen de la Cabeza is celebrated at Andújar on the last Sunday of the month of April.

Pope Benedict XVI conferred on Our Lady of Cabeza a Golden Rose on 22 November 2009, the first Marian image in Spain to receive this award.

[7] A request for the honor had been made by the bishop of Jaén, Ramón del Hoyo López, due to the fact that the diocese was celebrating the centenary of the image’s coronation.