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A shrine to the Virgin Mary, or Marian shrine, is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion. Such locales are often the destinations of Christian pilgrimages.
Our Lady of Medjugorje (Croatian: Međugorska Gospa), also called Queen of Peace (Croatian: Kraljica mira) and Mother of the Redeemer (Croatian: Majka Otkupitelja), is the title given to the visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said to have begun in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat children in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time in SFR Yugoslavia).
The Marian shrine of Medjugorje has become a popular pilgrimage site for Catholics, [12] and has turned into Europe's third most important apparition site, where each year more than 1 million people visit. [13] It has been estimated that 30 million pilgrims have come to Međugorje since the reputed apparitions began in 1981. [14]
In response to an inquiry from a French bishop, in March 1996 then Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger, stated that official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, if presumed as a place of authentic Marian apparitions, are not permitted to be organized either on the parish or on ...
Divine Mercy Shrine of Holy Mary Thodupuzha, Kerala is a Marian apparition site. Shrine of the Infant Jesus, Nashik, Maharashtra; St. George Orthodox Church Puthuppally Pally, Kerala is an international Georgian pilgrim center; St. Mary's Forane Church of Korattymuthy Koratty, Kerala is a Marian pilgrimage shrine. St. Joseph's Pilgrim Church ...
The annual pilgrimage, on or around 2 July (Feast of the Visitation - still celebrated on the traditional date of 2 July in Slovakia), still draws a very large number of participants. On 3 October 2005, Levoča and Mariánska hora were selected to join the European Association of Marian Pilgrimage Sites. [7]
The sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes began with the Marian apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 in the town of Lourdes.On 11 February 1858, a 14-year-old peasant girl, called Bernadette Soubirous, said she saw a "lady" while playing near the grotto of Massabielle (from masse vieille: "old mass") with her sister and a friend, on the left bank of the Gave de Pau river. [1]
The main spiritual activities are daily Mass at 11:30, a weekend celebrating God's mercy around the Second Sunday of Easter each year (Divine Mercy Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church) and the annual pilgrimage on the last weekend in August. Pilgrimages by groups and individuals are welcome throughout the year. [9] [10