The Basilica of Cartago

The Basilica of Cartago in Costa Rica is the home of "La Virgen de los Angeles" (the virgin of the angels) and has a very interesting legend. This legend tells us that Juana Pereira, a young girl, went into the forest near her house to play by the river, back in August 1635. At the river she found a piece of rock in the shape of the Virgin Mary with a small child, and she thought is was a doll and played with it. She went home with the rock and put it in her room, and the next day, when she went play by the river again, she found a very similar representation, which she took home to put it with the first one, but when she returned, the first one was not there. The little girl told about this to the Priest, and he went with her the following day and took the statue they found there back with him to the city, and locked it in a coffer. The next day they returned to the river to find yet another (or maybe the same?) statue there. When he returned to check the locked coffer he discovered it empty. This was taken as a sign that a church should be built on the site the statue kept returning to.