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Our Lady´s chapel in Altenmarkt. Fresco illustrating the Lauretan litany "Mary, you saviour of sinners". Refugium Peccatorum (Latin for Refuge of Sinners), also known as Our Lady of Refuge, is a title for the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church. [1] Its use goes back to Saint Germanus of Constantinople in the 8th century. [2]
The Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary (Latin: Sororum Dominae Nostrae a Refugio in Monte Calvario) are a religious congregation in Genoa, Italy. It was founded in 1631 [ 1 ] by Virginia Centurione Bracelli . [ 2 ]
Our Lady of Laus (French: Notre-Dame du Laus), or Refuge of Sinners, denotes Marian apparitions that took place between 1664 and 1718 in Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, France, to Benoîte Rencurel, a young shepherdess. On 23 May 1855, Pope Pius IX granted a Canonical Coronation to the marble image of Our Lady of Laus.
The Order of Our Lady of Charity (also known as Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge) is a Roman Catholic monastic order, founded in 1641 by Catholic saint, John Eudes in Caen, France. The Order is named in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Charity. There are two branches of the congregation: contemplative ...
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).
While superior at Tours, Mary Euphrasia formed a contemplative nuns group, named the Magdalen Sisters (based in a devotion to Mary Magdalene's conversion), now known as the Contemplative Communities of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, for penitent women who wished to live a cloistered life, but were ineligible to become Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. [7]
Two years later, when a quarry was opened on a hill owned by one of the members of the congregation in Saint Maurice of Moldes, the first stone of the sanctuary was laid on 18 June 1778, at the expense of the Brotherhood of Nuestra Señora del Refugio y Divina Peregrina (Our Lady of Refuge and Divine Pilgrim). The plans were drawn up by the ...
The Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio ("Ranch of Our Lady of Refuge") was a 74,000-acre (300 km 2) Spanish land grant to José Francisco Ortega in 1794 and is the only land grant made under Spanish and confirmed by USA in 1866 to Jose Maria Ortega under the US Supreme Court rule in what is today Santa Barbara County, California.