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The Statue of Our Lady of Lebanon is a French-made, 13-ton statue, made of bronze and painted white, [4] of the Virgin Mary.It was erected in 1907 on top of a hill, 650 meters above sea level, in the village of Harissa, 20 km north of Beirut in honor of Our Lady of Lebanon.
Constructed circa 1893–94 by architect Jules-Godefroy Astruc, it was inaugurated on 13 May 1894, allocated by the Jesuit Fathers of Sainte-Geneviève school in Paris, consecrated to Our Lady of Lebanon, a Marian shrine in Beirut, Lebanon. Following the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the Jesuits left it. It ...
The Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo (Portuguese: Eparquia Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo; Latin: Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Libanensis Sancti Pauli Maronitarum) is a Maronite Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Brazil. Its episcopal see is São Paulo. The current bishop is Edgard Madi.
The first proposal to establish a shrine to Our Lady of Lebanon was initiated in 1960 between the Maronite priests of the United States and Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle of Washington. Nothing came of that proposal so the Rev. Peter Eid suggested that the Maronites from the Youngstown, Ohio area build the shrine. He bought 80 acres (32 ha) in 1961 ...
Statue of sanctuary of Our Lady of Lebanon of Harissa in Jounieh. Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh (in Latin: Eparchia Ioubbensis, Sarbensis et Iuniensis Maronitarum) is an eparchy of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in Lebanon. In 2013 there were 396,250 baptized.
For other churches named after Our Lady of Lebanon, see: Shrine of Our Lady of the Cedars, Johannesburg, South Africa; Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon (North Jackson, Ohio), United States; Nuestra Señora del Líbano, Montevideo, Uruguay; Our Lady of Lebanon § Churches, schools, and shrines dedicated to Our Lady of Lebanon
The Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral [1] (Portuguese: Catedral Nossa Senhora do Líbano) also called Maronite Cathedral of São Paulo Is the name that receives a religious building affiliated to the Catholic Church of Maronite rite [2] that is located in the city of São Paulo in the state of the same name in the southeastern region of Brazil. [3]
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral is a Maronite Catholic cathedral located in Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is the seat of the Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn . It is located in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights in the oldest northwest section of the borough, across the East River from Manhattan .