Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan

The Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan and the abbey of Our lady of zapopan of Zapopan

are a 17th-century Franciscan sanctuary built in downtown Zapopan, in the state of

Jalisco, México.

It is one of the most visited sanctuaries in Western Mexico, and it preserves a wooden

Virgin that is considered a valuable relic of medieval origin, which came from Spain to

New Galicia in the 16th century.  The Huichol Museum is located in the building.

The abbey is made up of members of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, though it is

also used by the Capuchin, Third order, Society of Saint Francis, the Clarisse, and

Franciscan sisters. It has also worked with the Dominicans and the Franciscan Youth

(Youfra) of Roch.

The Romería of the Virgin of Zapopan is an annual pilgrimage from the Guadalajara

Cathedral to the Basilica of Zapopan.  At dawn on October 12 of each year a procession

of lay Catholics, pre-Columbian dancers, mendicants, priests and seminarians carries a

statue of the Virgin Mary from the cathedral to the basilica. The figure of the virgin

goes accompanied by more than 1,000,000 people.

UNESCO inscribed Romería—pilgrimage in 2018 on the Representative List of the

Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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