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Virgen de Guadalupe Festival Sucre in Sucre
Sucre's patronal Virgen de Guadalupe, known locally as the Mamita de Guadalupe, is a 1601 painting by Diego de Ocaña whose original canvas survives only in the Virgin's and Child's faces, the rest replaced in 1784 by a jewel-mounted silver sheet now carrying more than 18,000 pearls and a 405-emerald chalice. Her feast day, centered on 8 September, brings a formal Mass and procession at Sucre's Metropolitan Cathedral rather than a costumed street parade.
The image at the center of Sucre's Virgen de Guadalupe festival was painted in 1601 by the Extremaduran friar Diego de Ocaña, and today only the Virgin's face and that of the Child in her arms survive from his original canvas.