July 14: OUR LADY OF THE BUSH or Evora

The shrine of Our Lady at Evora, like so many others of the peninsula, concerns the statues hidden away at the time of the Moorish invasion.

During the years of the re-conquest, a shepherd was pasturing his flocks on the site of a camp where Christians had stayed for a time in the earlier wars.  He heard a sweet voice calling him and was attracted to a burning bush where, amid the flames, he saw a statue of Our Lady.

Our Lady gave him two messages, one for himself and one for the bishop.  The shepherd took the image down into the town to tell the Bishop.  Then he returned to the field and set up for himself a small hermitage.  He sold everything he had and built a tiny shrine for the statue there, and began public prayers to Mary as she had told him to do.

So many people joined in the devotions at the simple chapel that it soon became necessary to build a larger chapel.  Several miracles added to the impetus of the pilgrimages and the Bishop had a large church and monastery built at the spot.  The monks of St. Jerome were called in to tend the shrine.

In 1458 King Alfonso V, crusading against the Moors, made a promise to Our Lady to enrich the shrine if he were victorious.  He won the battle, and in gratitude did much to enrich and popularize the shrine of Our Lady of the Bush.

From the Woman in Orbit - A Timeless Marian Treasure Compiled By Sr. Manetta Lamberty, S.C.C.

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