[Rodrigo Balzategi with his flock in Aloña when he found the image of the Virgin of Aranzazu in 1469]
Document:
2398
Author:
Pirala, Angel
Printer:
Establecimiento tipografico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", Madrid
Book / Album / Dossier:
Santuarios guipuzcoanos
Date Ilustration format :
1895
Physical description:
1 7 x 6 cm engraving on a 15 x 9 cm page
Notes:
Also consult a second copy available in the Koldo Mitxelena collection (sig. 2764). Autographed. "...young Balzátegui was coming down the mountain slopes on one occasion, when he noticed that in one of the hawthorns or brambles..., there was a shape [...]. The shepherd Rodrigo, when he saw this apparition [said] Aranzanzu!, ¡You in the hawthorns!, and this is where it got its name from..."