Altar of Saint Mary of Our Lady of La O

From the moment it was founded, the Brotherhood placed itself under the protection of the Virgin in her invocation of La O, whose name it bears as its main title. The image of Saint Mary of Our Lady of la O has been the patron titular of the parish since its canonical foundation in 1911, although the church was consecrated to her blessed name in 1702, and it is impossible to determine whether it is the original image from the 16th century that gave rise to the Archfraternity or a later work. If it is the original, it would have come down to us intensely transformed on successive occasions, without it being possible to determine which of these was more important, in what way it influenced the sculpture or when it took place.

From an iconographic point of view, it represents the Virgin with a serene expression, her gaze lowered towards a book covered in red velvet and decorated with silver applications, which she holds in both hands and which contains the antiphons that, in the Liturgy of the Hours, announce Christmas eight days earlier. She is surrounded by an iris and two cascades, all made in the second half of the 18th century by the silversmith Antonino Ramos with the collaboration of other masters, and is permanently venerated in the only surviving altarpiece of those that came to La O in 1868 from the Oratory of Saint Felipe, which has now disappeared.