Our Lady of Coromoto and Venezuelan apparition tradition in nineteenth-century sources

Record summary

The Coromoto tradition concerns an apparition of the Virgin to the Indigenous chief Coromoto and his wife near Guanare, conventionally dated to 1652, followed by the preservation of a small sacred image. Nineteenth-century Venezuelan devotional and ecclesiastical narratives helped consolidate the account as a national Marian tradition. It matters for comparing Indigenous-conversion stories, material relics and later institutional memory. The earliest evidence, identity of the witnesses and development of the image tradition require source-by-source review; the account should be described as a religious claim rather than a verified apparition.