Cathedral of San Juan de los Lagos
The Cathedral of San Juan de los Lagos or the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos ( Spanish Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos ) is a Catholic church in the city of San Juan de los Lagos in the Mexican state of Jalisco . The cathedral of the diocese of San Juan de los Lagos is the second most visited church in Mexico after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City because of the veneration of the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos with five million pilgrims .
history
Based on a reanimation of a little girl in 1623 in connection with the image of Mary, this 33 centimeter high statue is venerated and is said to have caused further miracles. It represents the Immaculate Conception and was made from corn cane paste in Pátzcuaro.
The first sanctuary was built by Diego de Camarena in 1642 and is now known as the Chapel of the First Miracle (capilla del Primer Milagro). Later, in 1682, Camarena completed the construction of the second sanctuary, which is now the Parish Church of San Juan Bautista. In the period from 1732 to 1769, Carlos Cervantes, Bishop of Guadalajara , was responsible for the construction of today's basilica, which was completed with the move of the image of Mary. On August 15, 1904, the image of Mary with the approval of Pope was Pius X by Archbishop Jose Jesus Ortiz canonically crowned . On December 4, 1923, the sanctuary became a collegiate church, in 1947 it was given by Pope Pius XII. raised to the minor basilica. With the creation of the diocese by Pope Paul VI. and received it in 1972 with the rank of cathedral.
Building
Behind a double-tower facade with 68-meter-high towers rises the New Spanish Baroque church with a 24-meter-high, Gothic stucco vault. The single-nave church designed by Juan Rodríguez de Estrada has the plan of a Latin cross with a length of 85.5 meters, with the short transepts the church is 26 meters wide. Natural stone was used as a building material. Illuminated by the windows in the upper facade and the crossing dome with its octagonal drum and lantern , everything is concentrated on the high altar with the crowned statue of the Virgin Mary.
Furnishing
In the middle of the dominating high altar is the large canopy , which consists of four columns made of salmon-colored African marble that support a semicircular entablature, above a vault, which is framed by a beautiful semicircular arch with a wavy profile and decorated with phytomorphic elements, all of this in white Carrara marble. In the middle of the arch there is a cross in the shape of a keystone and underneath a cartouche with the monogram of the Virgin Mary. In the protruding cornice of the entablature, two beautiful little angels made of black brocade rest on the inside, standing on a few clouds and holding a crown in their hands that is said to have been cast in France by the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi . On the sides of the canopy, framed by a rectangular bar as a background, and standing on huge corbels, there are three-dimensional representations of St. Joachim on the left and St. Anna on the right.
Inside the canopy is the tabernacle , in which the miraculous image of the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos is kept, a circular niche supported by eight Ionic columns arranged in pairs . The tabernacle is covered with a mother-of-pearl dome made of silver, which ends at the top with the symbolic figure of the Holy Spirit, which was made by the goldsmith Epitacio Garabito.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos on gcatholic.org
- ↑ Virgen de San Juan (Spanish)
- ↑ Pilgrimage: From the Ganges to Graceland in the Google Book Search USA
- ↑ Creación de la Diócesis de San Juan de los Lagos (Spanish)
- ↑ Dimensions on skyscraperpage.com
Coordinates: 21 ° 14 ′ 43.6 ″ N , 102 ° 20 ′ 2.5 ″ W.