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Votive paintings in the ambulatory of the Chapel of Grace, in Altötting, Bavaria, Germany Mexican votive painting of 1911; the man survived an attack by a bull. Part of a female face with inlaid eyes, Ancient Greek Votive offering, 4th century BC, probably by Praxias, set in a niche of a pillar in the sanctuary of Asclepios in Athens, Acropolis Museum, Athens Bronze animal statuettes from ...
In the liturgy of the Catholic Church, a votive Mass (Latin missa votiva) is a Mass offered for a votum, a special intention. [1] Such a Mass does not correspond to the Divine Office for the day on which it is celebrated.
A votive office was a Roman Catholic practice to celebrate particular feasts that are not in the Catholic liturgical calendar. [1] Votive offices became so common from 1883 that there were only around three weeks in which they could not be used. These were abolished by Pope Pius X in 1911 by the Apostolic Constitution Divino Afflatu. [2]
An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or a divinity, given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow made") or in gratitude or devotion. [1] The term is usually restricted to Christian examples.
Articles related to votive offerings, objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious purposes. Such items are a feature of modern and ancient societies and are generally made in order to gain favor with supernatural forces.
The Treasure of Guarrazar, Guadamur, Province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, is an archeological find composed of twenty-six votive crowns and gold crosses that had originally been offered to the Roman Catholic Church by the Kings of the Visigoths in the seventh century in Hispania, as a gesture of the orthodoxy of their faith and their ...
A votive church (votive from the Latin votum 'vowed sacrifice, vows') is a church that was built as a votive offering, either as a sign of thanksgiving for salvation from an emergency or with a request for the fulfillment of a specific desire, and sometimes atonement (also known as an "expiatory chapel").
Before 1970, the priest said the Prayer over the Offerings silently because during the offertory the people, at an earlier time, sang a psalm or, in responsorial fashion, repeated a refrain while a soloist sang the verses of the psalm. [8] In the Tridentine Mass, only the choir sang the refrain alone to an elaborate setting.