Texas Highways, Volume 70, Number 2, February 2023 Page: 55
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BASILICA OF OUR ILDY
OF SAN JUAN DEL VALLE
THIS NATIONAL SHRINE welcomes roughly a
million visitors each year who come to pray, light
candles, and roam the 55,000-square-foot campus.
"It feels like an old Catholic church," Wilson says. "It's
very grand and ornate." Deemed a minor basilica of
the Catholic Church, the shrine is named after "La
Virgen de San Juan," an iteration of the Virgin Mary
that originated in the Mexican town of San Juan de
los Lagos. It is said that in the early 1600s a young girl
came back from the dead after her parents placed the
image of the Virgin Mary over her. Since then, people
have sought out La Virgen's help. People's faith in her
grew stronger in 1970 after a plane crashed into the
shrine's original structure while 50 parish priests were
inside the church and 100 children were in the school
next door. All of them survived. The current building
was opened in 1980.
400 N. Virgen de San Juan Blvd., San Juan.
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