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Islanders come to see and pray to a statue of the Madonna and Child, La Moreneta (or “little dark one”), so called because of its dark stone color.
La Moreneta looks down from a gold-and-glass case above and to the right of the altar in the basilica, but the faithful can touch or kiss her right hand through an opening.
During the Spanish Civil War, when anti-clerical feelings were violent among the Republicans in Barcelona, La Moreneta was secretly replaced by a copy; the original remained hidden during the Franco years.
A century later it became the repository of La Moreneta, the Black Madonna, said to be a carving by St. Luke later hidden by St. Peter.