the Virgin Mary in the many niches built for that purpose, most of the time empty, in the facades of buildings. The association has counted 200 niches to date. Some niches already have a statue, others [...] others are waiting for a Madonna to be reinstalled! Each re-installation of a statue of Mary in a niche is a small heritage victory! Indeed, there are many steps to follow. First the homeowner associations

the scaffold on which the artist was working. But as the monk fell, a statue of the Virgin, in a niche below the portal, stretched out her arms and held him in safety until help arrived.

(from the Moorish word almud meaning measure), a cascade of stones fell out of the wall and exposed a niche containing the image of the Virgin—henceforth called the Almudena . Astonishingly, the people saw

Three iron bars closed the cavity that contained these various objects, proving that this was a niche where the Madonna had been honored in former times. The braid of hair was an ex-voto left as a token

stone, in his distress, he looked up. He saw a simple village house, which happened to have a small niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary. When my father saw the statue, he cried out inwardly, "Mary, save

Virgin Mary, Mother of God!" The blind, deaf and mute boy had recovered sight, hearing and speech! The niche was opened and, as the miraculous lamp that had shone for so long inside was extinguished, an enchanting