Catedral y Basilica de San Nicolas

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The statue in procession outside the church

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Walnut statue brought from Peru around 1640

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Fresco showing procession of the St Nicholas statue

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La Rioja Argentina

Roman Catholic

The church was built in 1899, replacing two that were destroyed in an 1894 earthquake, and declared a minor basilica by Pope Pius XII in 1955.