November 30, 1969. After a 15 km pilgrimage on foot, the then President of Argentina, Juan Carlos Onganía, consecrates the nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Lujan.
December 3, 1871. First large pilgrimage of Argentinean Catholics to the Shrine of Lujan. The young priest Jorge M. Salvaire, a Vincentian missionary of French origin, recently arrived at his new mission in Argentina, visits the Shrine for the first time.
December 5, 1719. Pope Clement XI issues a Bull granting plenary indulgence to those who visit the church of Our Lady of Lujan on the day of the Immaculate Conception each year.
December 5, 1823. St. Martin, having completed the gigantic undertaking to secure the freedom of Chile and Peru, visits the sanctuary and the Villa of Lujan.
December 6, 1980. Inauguration and blessing of the crypt of the present Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan, where images of multiple Marian devotions are venerated.
December 8, 1673. Doña Ana de Matos completes the construction of a modest oratory next to her home for the veneration of the image of the Virgin and founds the Confraternity of Our Lady of Lujan.
December 8, 1685. The Holy Image is transferred to the first chapel built in its honor by its first chaplain, Father Pedro de Montalbo, who being seriously ill had made a pilgrimage to Lujan to ask the Virgin to intercede for his health and being miraculously cured, will remain until his death in her service. […]
December 24, 1674. Doña Ana de Matos and the town took up a collection and bought Negro Manuel so that he could continue his service to the image of Lujan in the ranch of the mentioned lady, because although he was considered "of the Virgin and nothing else", as he had been donated to the […]
