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Virgin Mary, venerated as the patron saint of bicyclists, near Leintz-Gatzaga in the Basque Country. The Blessed Virgin is cited as the patroness of all humanity. However, certain occupations and activities are more closely associated with her protection.
The statue's design is unlike most Immaculate Conception images, as the Virgin Mary carries a child Jesus rather than portrayed as being raised into Heaven. [49] [50] On 6 February 1818, the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa was erected in the Virgin Mary's patronal honor by King John VI of Portugal.
In John Berryman's Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry, The Dream Songs, poem 47, subtitled "April Fool's Day, or, St. Mary of Egypt", recounts Mary of Egypt's walk across the River Jordan. "Thrust back by hands of air from the sanctuary door" is the first line of Maria Aegyptiaca , a poem by John Heath-Stubbs about the saint ( Collected ...
The Mass of Mary McKillop is a setting for congregational singing, composed by Joshua Cowie. [63] [64] Statue of Mary MacKillop outside St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide. In 2018 The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania renamed a residence hall after Mary MacKillop. The building which used to be McCormick Hall is now MacKillop ...
Mary, mother of Jesus: Mary is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, [116] which Bishop William Donald Borders claimed included the moon due to a technicality in the 1917 Code of Canon Law which supposedly expanded the diocese's territory to include the moon following the flight of Apollo 11. [117] [118] [119]
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.
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm (Italian: Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; born Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi; 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607), was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church .
The Virgin of Candelaria is widely petitioned to pray for the protection against epidemics, plagues, droughts and volcanic eruptions of Mount Teide and other volcanoes, in a manner similar to the invocation of St. Januarius of Naples to pray for the end of the eruptions of Vesuvius and of St. Agatha of Catania against eruptions of Mount Etna in ...