Our Lady of Cabeza, is one of the two patron saints of Andújar and the Diocese of Jaén, along with Saint Euphrasius. The story begins in the first century. Saint Euphrasius came to Spain with a picture of Mary that is said to be done by the apostle Luke and given to Euphrasius by the apostle Peter.
Around 700 years later, Andújar was controlled by the Moorish people. Up on a very tall and hard to get to hill called Cerro del Cabezo, the portrait was sitting there, unfound.
After 500 years, there was a man named Juan Alonso de Rivas, whose left arm was crippled with paralysis and anchyloses. Suddenly, while he was watching his neighbor’s flock, he spied odd lights in the sky near a hill accompanied with the ringing of a bell.
He made his