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Our Lady of Luján (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Luján) is a celebrated 16th-century statue of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The image, also known as the Virgin of Luján (Spanish: Virgen de Luján), is on display in the Basilica of Luján in Argentina. The feast day of Our Lady of Luján is May 8.
Our Lady of Lourdes is an outdoor statue of the Virgin Mary, located in Paraparaumu, New Zealand.It was built by Dutch artist Martin Roestenberg in 1958 after being commissioned by Catholic parish priest Father J.S. Dunn to mark the 100th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.
The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble. The ...
The statue that was granted a canonical coronation on 1921. [3] September 8 is both the feast day of Our Lady of Meritxell and the Andorran National Day. [4] [5] The image is mentioned in the anthem of Andorra. [6] "Meritxell" is a relatively frequent female name among Andorran women and other Catalan-speaking women. Notable persons with the ...
Pages in category "Statues of the Virgin Mary" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Instead of casting his net to the sea, he threw it into the nearby Pansipit River. When he drew in his net, he caught a small, wooden image of the Blessed Virgin Mary less than a foot high. Though waterlogged, the image had a heavenly lustre, causing the pious Maningcad to prostrate himself and pray before the statue, which he brought home. [2] [3]
A statue of the Virgin Mary in Mexico has been captured “crying” tears, prompting hundreds to travel to witness a “miracle.”. The statue, residing in a church in the town of El Canal ...
The Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo 1433 has been described as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance [35]. Catholic Marian art has expressed a wide range of theological topics that relate to Mary, often in ways that are far from obvious, and whose meaning can only be recovered by detailed scholarly analysis.