Prayer Intention: For all young people There is a story of the discovery of a statue in October 1717. The Governor of the Province of San Paolo was passing through the area – a small town in the river valley. The people of that town decided to hold a feast in his honour and three fishermen went down to the river. They prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception that God would grant a good catch after a run of bad luck. Casting their nets into the river they dragged up a headless statue of the Virgin Mary. The statue was black. They also salvaged the head. The fishermen named the statue Our Lady of the Conception who appeared. Neighbours began to venerate the statue and devotion grew. The first chapel was built in 1745.