Our Lady of Sorrows of El Quinche in nineteenth-century Ecuadorian devotion

Record summary

The shrine of Our Lady of El Quinche became a major Ecuadorian pilgrimage center, with nineteenth-century devotional literature and reported cures contributing to its public religious history. Its origin story concerns an earlier image associated with Indigenous communities and clerical intervention, while later accounts describe answered prayers and healing. This lead is useful for comparing how shrine traditions preserve older origin narratives while adapting to modern pilgrimage institutions. The existence of devotion and reports is identifiable; individual cures require checking specific testimony, ecclesiastical records and medical documentation.