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Miraculous Origin of Our Lady of Luján in the Year 1630, by Augusto Ballerini (1895).. The Luján image was made in Brazil and sent to Argentina. [1] Tradition holds that a settler ordered the terracotta image of the Immaculate Conception in 1630 because he intended to create a shrine in her honor to help reinvigorate the Catholic faith in Santiago del Estero, his region. [2]
This image dates from the 18th century and is of Guarani origin. It was venerated by the Thirty-Three Orientals in 1825. [1] In 1857, one of them, General Manuel Oribe, presented a golden crown as a gift to the Virgin. [2] [3] On 8 September 1930, Pope Pius XI formally declared Our Lady of Lujan as the Patroness of Uruguay.
The Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Luján (Spanish: Basílica Menor de Nuestra Señora de Luján) is a Catholic church in Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Built in Neogothic style between 1890 and 1935, it is dedicated to Our Lady of Luján , the patron saint of Argentina.
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
In Brazil, Our Lady of Aparecida was declared in 1929 official Patron Saint of the country by Pope Pius XI. In Argentina, there is Our Lady of Luján. In other cases, the appearance of the Virgin was reported by an indigenous person, for example, Virgen de los Ángeles in Costa Rica.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as patroness of the Carmelite Order.. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century.
The altar image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with St. John the Baptist, Juan de Zumárraga and St. Juan Diego by Miguel Cabrera. The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is of a life-sized, dark-haired, olive-skinned young woman, standing with her head slightly inclined to her right, eyes downcast, and her hands held before her in prayer.
Our Lady of Nazaré, a Marian icon sculpted in wood, by St. Joseph according to the legend of Nazaré; Our Lady of Peñafrancia, a wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in Naga City, Bicol, Philippines; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, associated with a celebrated Byzantine icon of the same name dating from the 15th century