Festivities

Doing a bit of history, we will go back to September 25, 1619, the date on which an assault by Barbary pirates from North Africa tragically surprised the town of Oropesa.

The result will be numerous deaths, a town devastated and the church destroyed. They broke altars and the Virgen del Rosario was reduced to endless pieces.

Count Cervelló, Lord of Oropesa, collected each and every one of them and took them to the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Valencia. It is there where it changes its name, after the patient and laborious work of those nuns, to Virgen de la Paciencia.

After 345 years, on October 3, 1964 and after long procedures, the image of the Virgen de la Paciencia returns to Oropesa del Mar.

The population celebrates the patron saint festivities in the month of October, with the main festival being the first Sunday of the month.