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Every year, in February, thousands of men from Brazil who engage in the Men's Rosary (Portuguese: Terço dos Homens) movement gather at the basilica to pray and attend Mass. [25] [26] [27] They are guided by the Archbishop of Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais), Gil Antônio Moreira, who heads the movement according to the Brazilian Episcopal ...
This is a complete list of basilicas of the Catholic Church.A basilica is a church with certain privileges conferred on it by the Pope.. Not all churches with "basilica" in their title actually have the ecclesiastical status, which can lead to confusion, since it is also an architectural term for a church-building style.
The Lateran Baptistery was the first monumental free-standing baptistery, and in subsequent centuries Christian basilica churches were often endowed with such baptisteries. [26] At Cirta, a Christian basilica erected by Constantine was taken over by his opponents, the Donatists. [36]
Floorplan of San Lorenzo in Damaso, a basilica in Rome. It is built in the basilica style: a rectangular building with a nave flanked by longitudinal aisles. Basilicas are Catholic church buildings that have a designation, conferring special privileges, given by the Pope. Basilicas are distinguished for ceremonial purposes from other churches.
As the National Shrine, dedicated to the patroness of Brazil, one of the functions of the basilica is to function as a site of pilgrimage for laborers. The traditional pilgrimage of the laborers takes place each year on Brazil's independence holiday, September 7. [2] According to recent estimates, the basilica attracts about 8 million pilgrims ...
It was the Roman basilica used for meetings, markets, and courts of law that provided a model for the large Christian church and that gave its name to the Christian basilica. [3] Both Roman basilicas and Roman bath houses had at their core a large vaulted building with a high roof, braced on either side by a series of lower chambers or a wide ...
Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth of Exile; Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica (Caeté) Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Caconde; Our Lady of the Pillar Mother Church (Ouro Preto) Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, São João del Rei; Basilica Nossa Senhora de Penha; Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Caieiras
See: List of cathedrals in Brazil. Catedral de Nossa Senhora do Paraíso; Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Gonzaga; Cathedral of Brasília; Cathedral of Maringá; Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes (Canela) Cathedral of Salvador; Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro Cathedral; São Paulo Cathedral; Sorocaba Metropolitan Cathedral ...