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The Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Slovak: Bazilika navštívenia Panny Márie) in Levoča, Slovakia is located at the summit of Mariánska hora (English: Marian Hill), (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmarijaːnska ˈɦɔra]; 781 m. above sea level), a hill above Levoča with views over the town and countryside. Built in its ...
Shrine of Our Lady of Litmanová, situated in the northern Slovakia. Between 1990 and 1995, two young girls - Ivetka Korčáková (born 1978) and Katka Češelková (born 1977) - reported several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of The Immaculate Purity on Zvir Mountain in Litmanová.
A distinction is sometimes made between apparitions that are "Vatican approved" and those that are not. However, by the norms of Normae Congregationis, the only formal mechanisms for Holy See approval of an apparition would be the pope approving an apparition that had occurred in the Diocese of Rome, or the pope approving an apparition against the will of the local bishop, neither of which has ...
The three apparitions of Our Lady of Champion to Adele Brise were approved by Bishop David Ricken.. It remains to me now, the Twelfth Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay and the lowliest of the servants of Mary, to declare with moral certainty and in accord with the norms of the Church that the events, apparitions and locutions given to Adele Brise in October of 1859 do exhibit the substance of ...
The church, the second largest in Slovakia, also houses precious furniture and art work, [2] such as works of the jeweler János Szillassy . [3] During the Reformation, the church was Protestant from 1544. An organ was built from 1622. [4] The church tower was also used as a watchtower by the town, to give the alert to any incipient fires.
The National Cemetery (Slovak: Národný cintorín) in Martin, Slovakia is the final resting place of many important personalities of Slovak history. The list includes writers, poets, national activists, pedagogues, etc.
Biggest church in Slovakia Easternmost Gothic cathedral in Europe Nitra Cathedral Bazilika svätého Emeráma: Nitra: Nitra: Saint Emmeram: Cathedral, minor basilica Rožňava Cathedral Katedrála Nanebovzatia Panny Márie: Rožňava: Rožňava: Assumption of Mary: Cathedral Spišská Kapitula Cathedral Katedrála svätého Martina: Spiš ...
The foundation, development, activity and accumulation of the SNM-MT collections in Martin are connected with the work of its founding father, Andrej Kmeť, and other important personalities from the Slovak history like Ján Geryk, an ethnographer, a director, an author of open-air museum in Martin. Since its establishment the museum has ...