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Meaning & History
From the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de Argeme, meaning "The Virgin of Argeme."
She is one of the patrons of Coria in the Extremaduran province of Cáceres and the diocese of Coria-Cáceres alongside Peter of Alcántara.Its etymology is uncertain. One theory posits a derivation from Arabic حَارَة الْجَمْعِ (ḥārat al-jamʿi), from a combination of حَارَة (ḥāra) meaning "neighbourhood, quarter; street; house" and جَمْع (jamʿ) meaning "crowd, throng, mass, legion," lining up with a traditional account that the effigy was hidden in a cave in the year 714 to avoid theft and desecration by Muslim invaders before being rediscovered in 1124. Other versions of the story of the effigy's discovery revolve around a farmer either touching the image with his ploughshare and then hearing the word arge or shouting to his cow Geme the phrase Ara, Geme! when the cow was not moving so as not to step on the holy effigy (one other version revolves around a yoke consisting of two cows named Ara and Geme).
She is one of the patrons of Coria in the Extremaduran province of Cáceres and the diocese of Coria-Cáceres alongside Peter of Alcántara.Its etymology is uncertain. One theory posits a derivation from Arabic حَارَة الْجَمْعِ (ḥārat al-jamʿi), from a combination of حَارَة (ḥāra) meaning "neighbourhood, quarter; street; house" and جَمْع (jamʿ) meaning "crowd, throng, mass, legion," lining up with a traditional account that the effigy was hidden in a cave in the year 714 to avoid theft and desecration by Muslim invaders before being rediscovered in 1124. Other versions of the story of the effigy's discovery revolve around a farmer either touching the image with his ploughshare and then hearing the word arge or shouting to his cow Geme the phrase Ara, Geme! when the cow was not moving so as not to step on the holy effigy (one other version revolves around a yoke consisting of two cows named Ara and Geme).