Sources
The work Maravillas de la Naturaleza (Wonders of Nature), written in Palma de Mallorca by Friar Juan de Santa Gertrudis, O. F. M., between 1771 and 1775. In Chapter 39 of Volume II, pages 47 to 66, of the Biblioteca de la Presidencia de Colombia edition, there is an interesting account of what happened to the author in Taminango until his return to Pasto from the journey to the Virgin of Las Lajas.
This is the oldest written document referring to Our Lady of Las Lajas. Wonders of Nature dates back to or near the year 1759.
Lázaro M. Girón. Papel Periódico Ilustrado (Illustrated Newspaper), N⁰109, Bogotá, 1887.
Ilustrísimo Sr. Federico González Suárez. Recuerdos de viaje (Travel Memories), Friburgo de Brisgovia, 1901.
Presbítero Rafael D. Aguilera y C. Impresiones de viaje (Travel Impressions), Palmira, 1907.
Presbítero Julio M. Matovelle. Imágenes y Santuarios célebres de la Santísima Virgen en la América Española (Famous Images and Shrines of the Most Holy Virgin in Spanish America), Quito, 1910.
Presbítero José Benjamín Arteaga. Las Lajas (Las Lajas), Pasto, 1911.
Isaac Acosta. El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas), Quito, 1914.
Alfonso A. Jerves, O. P. Nuestra Señora del Rosario de las Lajas (Our Lady of the Rosary of Las Lajas), Quito, 1914.
Un devoto de la Virgen. Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (Our Lady of Las Lajas), 1914.
Félix María Cabrera, S. O. Breve Reseña de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (Brief Review of Our Lady of Las Lajas), Ipiales, 1916.
Homenaje de un devoto de este Santuario (Homage from a Devotee of this Sanctuary). El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas), Bogotá, 1922.
Luciano Herrera. El Santuario de las Lajas (The Sanctuary of Las Lajas), Pasto, 1722.
Presbítero Agustín Coral. Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (Our Lady of Las Lajas), Cali, 1923.
Fray Jesús María Velásquez E. Novena a la Gloriosa Virgen de las Lajas (Novena to the Glorious Virgin of Las Lajas), Cali, 1923.
Octaviano Chaves, S. O. El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas), Pasto, 1925.
Presbítero Julio Matovelle. Imágenes y Santuarios célebres de la Santísima Virgen en Colombia y Ecuador (Famous Images and Shrines of the Most Holy Virgin in Colombia and Ecuador), Quito, 1928.
Presbítero Benjamín Belalcázar B. La Santísima Virgen de Las Lajas (drama) (The Most Holy Virgin of Las Lajas (drama), Pasto, 1929.
Hermano Antonio de Padua. La Defensa de Medellín e Ilustración Nariñense (The Defense of Medellín and Nariño Ilustration) de Pasto, 1928 y 1929.
Benjamín Endara. Artículos y hojas sueltas (Articles and Loose Leaves): La Corona de María (Mary’s Crown), Quito, 1917; El Observador (The Observer), Riobamba, 1917; El Hogar Cristiano (The Christian Home), Guayaquil, 1918; La Virgen de las Lajas (The Virgin of Las Lajas), Quito, 1927; La Virgen de las Lajas merece ser coronada canónicamente (The Virgin of Las Lajas Deserves to Be Canonically Crowned), Quito, 1927; Descripción de la Virgen de las Lajas (Description of the Virgin of Las Lajas), Quito, 1927; El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas (The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas), Quito, 1928, and Historia de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas aparecida en el Sur de Colombia (History of Our Lady of Las Lajas Apparition in Southern Colombia), Quito, 1940.
Andrés de Mezanza, O. P. Célebres Imágenes y Santuarios de la Santísima Virgen en Colombia (Famous Images and Shrines of the Most Holy Virgin in Colombia).
Félix Alejandro Cepeda, C. M. F. América Mariana (Marian America).
Pbro. J. C. Mejía y Mejía. Tradiciones y Documentos (Traditions and Documents), Ipiales, 1931.
R. A. G. L.. Cosas del Sur (Things of the South), revista Letras de Bogotá, 1931.
Pbro. J. C. Mejía y Mejía. Tradiciones y Documentos (Traditions and Documents), Pasto, 1931.
Pbro. J. C. Mejía y Mejía. Tradiciones y Documentos (Traditions and Documents), Quito, 1938.
Pbro. J. C. Mejía y Mejía. Notas crítico-iconográficas (Critical-Iconographic Notes), Pasto, 1948.
Benjamín Endara. Historia de la Virgen de las Lajas aparecida en el Sur de Colombia (History of the Virgin of Las Lajas Apparition in Southern Colombia), Quito, 1949.
Pbro. J. C. Mejía y Mejía. Tradiciones y Documentos (Traditions and Documents), Bogotá, 1950.
Agustín M. Coral. Nuestra Señora del Rosario de las Lajas (Our Lady of the Rosary of Las Lajas), Bogotá, 1954.
Rubén Vargas Ugarte, S. J. Historia del Culto de María en Iberoamérica y de sus Imágenes y Santuarios más celebrados (History of the Cult of Mary in Ibero-America and its Most Celebrated Images and Shrines), Madrid, 1956.
Other sources include:
Antonio de Herrera, The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly called the West-Indies from the First Discovery thereof: With the Beft Accounts the People could give of their Antiquities, 1601.
Girolamo Benzoni, History of the New World, In Venice at the Press of Peter & Francis Tini, 1572 edition, pages 7, 12, 49, 265, and 271. The book was published in 1565 with a map showing Maracapana. The book was dedicated to Pope Pius IV.
The Wonders of Nature book written from 1758 to 1790 by Friar Juan de Santa Gertrudis.
Discovery of the Origins of the Name of America written in 1888 by Thomas de St. Bris.
The Immaculate Heart: The True Story of Our Lady of Fatima written in 1952 by John De Marchi.
Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary written in 1989 by Rev. Teiji Yasuda.
Champions of the Rosary written in 1996 by Fr. Don Calloway.
Brother Esteban Escobar’s excellent presentations on Our Lady of Las Lajas.
Sanctuary of Las Lajas Animation by Arqui Cultura online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3b7FCe9IGA&t=8s.
Manuel Guerrero Mora, History of the Virgin of Las Lajas available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHvj53PFq4&t=1301s.
Marian Therese Horvat, Our Lady of Good Success, written in 1999.
The Fatima Center online at www.fatima.org
Our Lady of Las Lajas Museum history information available online at www.laslajas.org.
Documentaries
David J. Dionisi, Victory of Our Lady of Las Lajas, 2025 online at https://vimeo.com/vigilantcatholic/1.
Marian R. Horvat, Ph.D., Tradition in Action, The Story of Our Lady of Good Success and her Prophecies for Our Times, 2015 online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qlXqWfXX8E and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7THIi4ts0.
David J. Dionisi, Akita and the Fatima Secret, 2015 online at https://vimeo.com/vigilantcatholic/afs2015.
David J. Dionisi, The Secret of Nagasaki, 2014 online at https://vimeo.com/vigilantcatholic/secretofnagasaki.
Archives
Metropolitan Archive of Quito: Books of enrollment records for religious orders, Licenses for confessing, preaching, etc.; titles of vicars, priests, chaplains, etc.
Archive of the Main Convent of La Merced, Quito: libro Book of Religious Professions/Vows.
Parish Archive of Ipiales: Book of Confraternities and Book of Provisions.
Archive of the Las Lajas Sanctuary: Inventories of the Sanctuary's Assets, Book of Extraordinary Events. Las Lajas Florilegium.
Archive of the University of Cauca: Colonial Documents, Ecclesiastical Section, years 1805-1806.
Archive of the Santo Domingo Convent, Quito: Vacas Galindo Document Collection.
Pueyo de Val Archive: Summary letters from a file/legal case against the blind man of Ipiales, Manuel de Rivera.
Mejía y Mejía Archive: Various documents.
Victory of Our Lady of Las Lajas and Traditions and Documents are available from the www.victoryofourlady.com website.
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