Our Lady of Solitude of Porta Vaga is a Roman Catholic Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1667 by a Spanish soldier during a night storm when he watched over the gates of Porta Vaga, later on the next day the icon was discovered in the seashore of Cañacao bay. The Virgin of Soledad is a venerated Marian icon associated to the Our Lady of Solitude. The province of Cavite and the city of Cavite consider her as its patroness.
The original icon
The original icon after its restoration without any ornaments
Original Spanish era Frame of Our Lady of Porta Vaga
The oldest known design of an Estampa or print of Our Lady of Solitude of Porta Vaga with the granted 80 days indulgence of Archbishop Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina of Manila and 40 days indulgence of Bishop Mateo Joaquin Rubio de Arevalo of Cebu
Our Lady of Solitude is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus and a special form of Marian devotion practised in Spanish-speaking countries to commemorate the solitude of Mary on Holy Saturday. Variant names include Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Maria Santisima, Nuestra Señora Dolorosisima de la Soledad, and Virgen de la Soledad.
Our Lady of Solitude of the Basilica of Mafra, Portugal.
Our Lady of Solitude in the Procesión del Silencio in Madrid 1915.
Our Lady of Solitude in Teruel, Spain
