The Basilica Our Lady of Altagracia, located in Higüey, La Altagracia province, is open throughout the year, however, on January 21, its date, is when more congregation they will be grateful for the favors or miracles they have received from the Virgin.
With faith in her spiritual mother and convinced that she would fulfill her request, Mariana Batista offered a promise to Virgin of Altagracia. This type of action is not uncommon to find in devotees of the Virgin, who come to her to ask for favors.
Batista’s promise was to come all the years of his life with his offspring, barefoot and dressed in white, if he freed him from the jail where he was being held.
After seeing her promise fulfilled in a short time, she has come barefoot and dressed in white with her son, for eight uninterrupted years to visit the sanctuary where the painting of the Virgin of Altagracia.
promise of generations
The case of Lizandro Cruz is completely different from the previous one, he did not make a promise, but he keeps the word of his ancestors.
Although he cannot reveal the favor that his ancestors asked of the Virginnarrates that he inherited his grandmother’s promise to come every January 21 dressed as Saint Anthony to visit the Virgin.
She says that her grandmother inherited it from her ancestors, because they saw her promise fulfilled. This inherited promise that he carries on his shoulders has been fulfilled for 13 years, the same as his deceased grandmother.
the devotion of the congregation, according to Father Ángel de La Rosa, is because the Virgin de la Altagracia intercedes before her son Jesus Christ for the requests of her congregation
Regarding the importance of the promises, he comments that when God and the Virgin of Altagracia are always listened to and, in one way or another, they will receive their answers.
It also shows that man has always offered to the Lord what he receives. He argued that offerings are a form of gratuity to God.
