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Miraculous Origin of Our Lady of Luján in the Year 1630, by Augusto Ballerini (1895).. The Luján image was made in Brazil and sent to Argentina. [1] Tradition holds that a settler ordered the terracotta image of the Immaculate Conception in 1630 because he intended to create a shrine in her honor to help reinvigorate the Catholic faith in Santiago del Estero, his region. [2]
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).
Our Lady of Perpetual Help A patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a form of spiritual protection attributed to Mary, mother of Jesus , in favor of some occupations, activities, religious orders, congregations, dioceses, and geographic locations.
On 23 May 1855, Pope Pius IX granted a Canonical Coronation to the marble image of Our Lady of Laus, with 40,000 people attending the crowning ceremony. [2] He later named Benoîte Rencurel a “Servant of God” in 1872. [4] In 1892, the church was given the title minor basilica, the Basilica of Our Lady of Laus. [2]
This image dates from the 18th century and is of Guarani origin. It was venerated by the Thirty-Three Orientals in 1825. [1] In 1857, one of them, General Manuel Oribe, presented a golden crown as a gift to the Virgin. [2] [3] On 8 September 1930, Pope Pius XI formally declared Our Lady of Lujan as the Patroness of Uruguay.
Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
The deer ran towards the top of a cliff, and in the fog Dom Fuas was cut off from his companions. When he realised he was at the edge of the cliff, he recognised the place. He was next to a small grotto where a statue of Our Lady with the Infant Jesus was venerated. He prayed out loud "Our Lady, help me" (Portuguese: Señora, Valei-me!).
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