Água Santa, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) (original) (raw)

image by Dirk Schönberger, 19 December 2011
Source: http://www.cnm.org.br/municipio/hino\_brasao.asp?iIdMun=100143001 (inactive)

The municipality of �gua Santa (3,748 inhabitants; 29,180 ha) is located 300 km north-east of Porto Alegre.

�gua Santa was established in the 1920s by Italian colonists coming from Antonio Prado, Veran�polis, Garibaldi and other neighboring towns. They named the place for the miraculous, "saint water" ("�gua santa") gushing forth in a cave located 2 km from the downtown. Dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, the cave is the site of a yearly farmers' pilgrimage unique in Brazil.
Ivan Sache, 11 July 2020