{"id":31343,"date":"2017-11-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/travel-off-the-beaten-path-in-colombia-and-visit-the-shrine-in-sopo\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T01:48:57","slug":"travel-off-the-beaten-path-in-colombia-and-visit-the-shrine-in-sopo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/travel-off-the-beaten-path-in-colombia-and-visit-the-shrine-in-sopo\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel off the beaten path in Colombia and visit the shrine in Sop\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once there was a simple lady named Rosa Nieto, who was working in the parish of Sop\u00f3 on December 3, 1753. She took care of cleaning there and washed the church’s clothes and cloaks. Every day she went to the La Moya water source. But this day was unlike any other. Once she arrived, Rosa looked into the water and saw a beam of light shining upward from the bottom, setting the surface of the water ablaze. Curious as she was, she stretched out her arm in the water, searching with her hands for the source of light. Rosa thought there must be a hole, but all she felt was a smooth, almost square, pebble…<\/em> And that was the beginning of the beautiful, historic and religious shrine in Sop\u00f3.<\/p>\n

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An extraordinary discovery<\/h2>\n

Rosa took another good look at the stone. When she realized what she saw, her breath stopped. Inside the stone was an image of the Lord. Amazed, she took the special object home where she placed it on the altar. Although it was becoming evening, the stone continued to emit the same glow she had seen earlier in the water source. In the early morning, Rosa took her find to the parish to show it to Pastor Raimundo Forero. He looked at it intently, but his vision was so poor that he saw neither a light glow nor an image of God, and so he believed nothing at all of her story.<\/p>\n\n\t\t