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Our Lady of Perpetual Help is widely venerated by Filipino Catholics and overseas Filipino communities. A German copy of the icon is venerated in the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran, Parañaque City, Metro Manila – the country's centre of devotion to the icon. Since 1958, the Church has been authorized to remain ...
Version of the Theotokos of Smolensk by Dionisius (c. 1500) 12th-century plaque found in Torcello Cathedral; a full-length figure like the original in Constantinople. A Hodegetria, [a] or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to him as the source of salvation for humankind.
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).
The church is noted for its image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. It is a polychrome wooden sculpture of the 18th century of Jesuit craftsmanship. It replaced a smaller image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help; today there are two are at church. [2] The church has three recent tombs. The tomb of the Daltro Nabuco family dates to 1877.
The Virgin of Mercy is a subject in Christian art, showing a group of people sheltering for protection under the outspread cloak, or pallium, of the Virgin Mary.It was especially popular in Italy from the 13th to 16th centuries, often as a specialised form of votive portrait; it is also found in other countries and later art, especially Spain and Latin America.
Its centre includes an image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a replica of one found in the redemptorist church of Rome. [5] The altars of Saint Alphonsus and of Our Lady of Mount Carmel were designed by the brother Huberto with bas-reliefs by the Spanish artist José Soria. The basilica is 68 metres (223 ft) long and 30 metres (98 ft) wide.
Our Lady of Nazaré, a Marian icon sculpted in wood, by St. Joseph according to the legend of Nazaré; Our Lady of Peñafrancia, a wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in Naga City, Bicol, Philippines; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, associated with a celebrated Byzantine icon of the same name dating from the 15th century
Our Lady of Perpetual Help shrine. A replica icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was installed over the main altar of the original church on May 28, 1871. Not long after, cures were reported, attributed to the intercession of Our Lady. In November 1874, the weekly practice of bestowing a blessing on the sick was formally established.