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Shrine of Santa Minia

Brión, Santiago, A Coruña

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Shrine of Santa Minia

Monument · Brión, Santiago, A Coruña

A 19th-century sanctuary in Pedrouzos (Brión, A Coruña) built to house the body of Santa Minia, a Roman martyr whose relics were removed in 1781 from the catacombs of Santa Inés in Rome, with the authorisation of Pope Pius VII in 1783. After passing through several hands they reached Luis Tobío, a native of Brión, who carried them by sea to Vigo and by land to the village, where they arrived on 1 August 1848. Worship was authorised that same year, and the church, designed by Manuel de Prado y Vallo and built by the stonemason Manuel Novás between 1851 and 1857 with stone from the Torres de Altamira, received the relics in 1868. Its pilgrimage, on 27 September, draws around 45,000 worshippers who offer wax ex-votos.

Photo: P.Lameiro (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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