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Sanctuary Of Arantzazu
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Arantzazu is a Franciscan church located in Oñati, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. The church is a much-loved place among Gipuzkoans, as the Virgin of Arantzazu is the shrine’s namesake and patron saint of the province, alongside Ignatius of Loyola. It is built on the site where the Virgin of Arantzazu reportedly appeared to the shepherd Rodrigo de Balanzategui in 1468. Legend has it the figure of the Virgin was in a thorn-bush, and the boy exclaimed "''Arantzan zu?!''" (Thou, among the thorns?!), giving rise to the name of the place. A linguistic explanation is the name stems from ''arantza'' + ''zu'' meaning “place abounding in Hawthorn (plant), hawthorn”. Pope Leo XIII granted a Canonical coronation to the image on 6 June 1886. Arantzazu is a female Spanish naming customs, name in Spain in the forms ''Arantza'' and ''Arantzazu'' (especially in Biscay and Gipuzkoa), along with ''Arancha'' (Spanish spelling) or ' ...
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Oñati
Oñati (, ) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the north of Spain. It has a population of approximately 10,500 and lies in a valley in the center of the Basque country. It lies about south of the Bay of Biscay and is about above sea level. The name is Basque and translates roughly as "place of many hills", reflecting the landscape of the area. The town is surrounded on three sides by green mountains on the southern side by the Aloña limestone formation. Main sights Dating back to the Medieval period, Oñati is home to numerous monuments. The University of Oñati, the ancient university of the Basque Country, which is in the town's centre, is one of the oldest university buildings on the Iberian Peninsula. Today it houses the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Other important sites include the monastery and hospice of Bidaurreta and the Church of Saint Michael. Above the city lies the Sanctuary ...
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Our Lady Of Aranzazu
Our Lady of Aránzazu (; ) is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The replica in the Philippines is known as a wonderworking image due to claims of healing and delivery from flood. It retains its standing posture despite controversy owing to the original image in Oñati, Spain, being seated. History The history of Christianity in San Mateo, Rizal dates back to the early Spanish era of 1596, when the Augustinians built the first settlements in the area. On 29 August 1596, the first parish church was built under the patronage of Saint Matthew the Apostle. On 6 December 1696, the Jesuits arrived and gained control of the church and town. In 1705, the Jesuit Juan de Echazabal changed the patronage of the town from Saint Matthew to the Virgin of Aránzazu, which he introduced. In 1716, a new church was built on the site of the present one and placed under the patronage of the Virgin. The first image of the Virgin was brought to the Philippines by a Spanish captain fro ...
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Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza (October 21, 1908 – April 9, 2003), was a Basques, Basque Spain, Spanish sculpture, sculptor, painting, painter, designer and writing, writer from the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Basque modern art. Oteiza was born in Orio, Spain, Orio (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community, Spain). He moved to South America in 1935, just before the Spanish Civil War, and stayed there for 14 years. In 1963 he published ''Quosque tandem!'', an essay about the aesthetics inherent to Basque soul, based on pre-historic art, prehistoric art found in Basque regions and Basque people's anthropological roots. Three years on, he contributed to found the Gaur (artistic group), artistic group Gaur. He died in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, in 2003. Following his will, a month after his death a museum dedicated to his career was opened in Alzuza, Altzuza, Navarre, in the place where he had l ...
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Lucio Muñoz
Lucio Muñoz (27 December 1929 – 24 May 1998) was a Spanish abstract painter and engraver. Biography Muñoz was the son of Lucio Muñoz, a shopkeeper, and Nicolasa Martínez. Born on 27 December 1929 in Madrid, he was the youngest of two brothers and three sisters. His mother died in 1935. In 1949, Muñoz enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Cádiz, where he obtained a degree in Fine Arts. While at the school, he met Amalia Avia; they married on 15 January 1960. The first of their four children was born that year. Art Muñoz's first one-man exhibition was at the Sala de la Direccion General de Bellas Artes in Madrid, in 1955. During a stay in Paris financed by a Spanish government scholarship in 1955–6, Muñoz was influenced by the art informel movement. He worked with various materials, such as burnt paper and wood, in addition to canvas. He pierced, bent, and made cuts in the canvas, like informalist artists. He is particularly known for h ...
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Luis Laorga
Luis Laorga (1919 - 1990) was a Spanish architect. Luis Laorga was a key architect in the Spanish architecture of the second half of the twentieth century. His contributions are of great relevance, both for his built projects as well as for the way to produce them. It is certainly one of the architects that changed the architectural scene in Spain. During his professional career he signed around 600 projects, many of them relevant proposals, more than a dozen of which were awarded first prizes in different competitions. He became an architect in 1946. In his first years he obtained the first prize in four important competitions, three of them together with Javier Sáenz de Oiza, former classmate: the Santuario de Aránzazu, the Basílica de la Merced and the planning of the aqueduct area in Segovia. They were awarded the Spanish National Award of Architecture in 1947. Simultaneously, he developed other projects, such as the church of the Rosario in Batán. During the 50s he w ...
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Francisco Javier Sáenz De Oiza
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza (12 October 1918 – 18 July 2000) was a Spanish architect and influential practitioner of the modernist movement in Spain. Biography Born in Cáseda, Navarre, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza went to school in Seville and studied architecture in Madrid. After a study trip to the United States, in 1949, he returned to Madrid where he started teaching at the School of Architecture, later becoming its director.Prince of Asturias Awards: ''Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza: Biography''
Retrieved 26 March 2018.
Among the numerous awards he received in Spain were the
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Arantzazu Dorrea 2005 04 24
Arantzazu (Spanish ''Aránzazu'') is a town and municipality located in the province of Bizkaia, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Toponym * Etymologically Arantzazu means 'place of hawthorn' in the Basque language. In addition, this municipality of Biscay has the same name as another district in Oñati (Gipuzkoa), famous for being the location of the Sanctuary of Arantzazu. Architecture * ''San Pedro de Arantzazu'' is the church of the municipality, finished in 1828. Population * 305 inhabitants. ( INE 2007). Geography * Elevation: 135 metres. See also * Arantxa Arantza or Arantxa is a Basque feminine given name, meaning "thornbush". It is a hypocoristic for '' Our Lady of Arantzazu'', a shrine of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Gipuzkoa. People with the name Arantxa include: Tennis * Arantxa Parra Santonj ... References External links ARANTZAZU in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa ...
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Esteban De Garibay
Esteban de Garibay y Zamalloa, sometimes rendered as Çamalloa, was a Basque historian and writer. Biography Garibay was born in the Basque town of Mondragon and initially trained to be a monk, although he left and was married later on. He studied at the University of Oñati, which was founded a few years after his birth and was the only university in Spanish Basque country, although he did not graduate. Garibay traveled widely throughout the Iberian Peninsula, including places such as Portugal and Andalusia in addition to eminent Spanish cities such as Seville, Toledo, and Madrid. He involved himself in the political life of these areas and, as a result, was able to write a collective history of Spain itself, which began with Creation and ending with King Pelayo. He traveled to Antwerp to publish his ''Compendio historia'' at Christophe Plantin's publishing house between 1570 and 1572. He went into debt and eventually became bankrupt as a result, traveling back through Fran ...
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Basque Language
Basque ( ; ) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Basque is classified as a language isolate (unrelated to any other known languages), the only one in Europe. The Basques are indigenous to and primarily inhabit the Basque Country. The Basque language is spoken by 806,000 Basques in all territories. Of them, 93.7% (756,000) are in the Spanish area of the Basque Country and the remaining 6.3% (50,000) are in the French portion. Native speakers live in a contiguous area that includes parts of four Spanish provinces and the French Basque Country, three "ancient provinces" in France. Gipuzkoa, most of Biscay, a few municipalities on the northern border of Álava and the northern area of Navarre formed the core of the remaining Basque-speaking area before measures were introduced in the 1980s to stre ...
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San Mateo, Rizal
San Mateo, officially the Municipality of San Mateo (), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Rizal (province), Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 273,306. Conurbation, Conurbated to the urban agglomeration of the Greater Manila Area, San Mateo is one of the fastest-growing municipalities in Rizal Province, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Provincial Government of Rizal. It is a Commuter town, commuter hub to Metro Manila. San Mateo is the home of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Aranzazu (Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu). History Spanish Colonial Era In his book ''Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas'', Father Gaspar de San Agustín records what is now San Mateo in 1572 to be a satellite settlement of Pasig. He described the inhabitants being “fierce but friendly and of quiet disposition.” Father Juan de Medina, in his account ''Relación de lo ...
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San Mateo Church (Rizal)
The National Shrine of Our Lady of Aranzazu, also known as San Mateo Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church situated in the Municipalities in the Philippines, municipality of San Mateo, Rizal, San Mateo, Rizal (province), Rizal, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antipolo, Diocese of Antipolo. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Aranzazu, Our Lady of Aránzazu, a Marian title originating from Oñati, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. History The town of San Mateo, Rizal was established in 1596 by Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friars. The first parish was built on August 29, 1596, and was dedicated to Matthew the Apostle, Saint Matthew the Apostle, after whom the town was named. On December 6, 1696, the Society of Jesus, Jesuits replaced the Augustinians and gained control of the town. In 1705, a Jesuit priest named Juan de Echazabal changed the town's patron saint from St. Matthew to Our Lady of ...
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