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Lithuania. [edit on Wikidata] Our Lady of Šiluva (English: Our Lady of the Pine Woods) [1] is Roman Catholic image of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated at the Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Šiluva shrine in Lithuania. The patriotic icon is highly venerated in Lithuania and is often called Lithuania's greatest treasure.
Mary has been one of the major subjects of Western art for centuries. There is an enormous quantity of Marian art in the Catholic Church, covering both devotional subjects such as the Virgin and Child and a range of narrative subjects from the Life of the Virgin, often arranged in cycles. Most medieval painters, and from the Reformation to ...
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Mary, Marymas[a][b] or the Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus. The modern Biblical canon does not record Mary's birth. The earliest known account of Mary's birth is found in the Gospel of James (5:2), an apocryphal text ...
Kerċem. Our Lady of Prompt Succor (French: Notre Dame de Bon Secours) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a wooden devotional image of the Madonna and Child enshrined in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. The image is closely associated with Mother Saint Michel, the Superior of the New Orleans ...
Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church. Blessed Virgin. Mary. Mother of God Queen of Heaven Mother of the Church Our Lady. Born. September 8 (Nativity of Mary) Died. The Catholic Church teaches that, at the end of her natural life, she was assumed into heaven, body and soul (Assumption of Mary) Venerated in.
The Blessed Virgin Mary carrying the Child Jesus atop a Pillar, surrounded by two or more angels Our Lady of the Pillar ( Spanish : Nuestra Señora del Pilar ) is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the context of the traditional belief that Mary, while living in Jerusalem , supernaturally appeared to the Apostle James the Greater in ...
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).
According to the Passing of the Blessed Virgin Mary, attributed to Joseph of Arimathea, which is a later version of the Virgin Mary's Dormition, probably from sometime after the early seventh century, one of the apostles, often identified as Thomas the Apostle, was not present at the death of Mary but his late arrival precipitates a reopening ...