Abstract
During the eighteenth century a miracle-working figure representing Our Lady of Mercy travelled through South America and even Spain gathering alms for the construction projects of the Mercederian order in Quito. Evidence of the popularity of the so-called ‘Pilgrim of Quito’ is the remarkable number of paintings of the image, primarily from Cuzco, extant today. Drawing on the relatively scant contemporary textual documentation, this essay gathers what is known about the devotion to the ‘Peregrina de Quito’ in order to place these well-known paintings in their historical context.
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