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Rocio

Meaning — From the Spanish rocío meaning "dew" or "dewdrops", from the Latin ros/roris meaning "dew". The full name is Nuestra Señora del Rocío (Our Lady of the Dew), a Marian title from the famous shrine in Almonte, Andalusia, where a medieval image of the Virgin Mary is venerated. The annual Romería del Rocío pilgrimage is one of Spain's largest religious gatherings.·Latin origin·Female·roh-SEE-oh

Rocio Rocío carries the imagery of Andalusian morning dew — the briefest, most delicate precipitation, formed in the still hours before dawn when the temperature drops just enough to condense moisture from the air, present only in the first light and gone before the sun is fully risen. In Marian devotion dew symbolizes divine grace arriving silently, unannounced, transforming the arid into the fertile. A character named Rocío often possesses a quality of transient luminosity, a presence that is most powerfully felt in quiet moments.

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