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Our Lady´s chapel in Altenmarkt. Fresco illustrating the Lauretan litany "Mary, you saviour of sinners". Refugium Peccatorum (Latin for Refuge of Sinners), also known as Our Lady of Refuge, is a title for the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church. [1] Its use goes back to Saint Germanus of Constantinople in the 8th century. [2]
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Budslau: Pope John Paul II Our Lady of Congregation [20] 28 August 2005 St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Grodno: Pope John Paul II [m] Our Lady of Gudogai 15 July 2007 Gudogai Pope Benedict XVI [n] Our Lady, Queen of Families [21] 5 July 2009 Trokeli Pope Benedict XVI
A series of apparitions by the Blessed Virgin Mary were first reported at the rocky hillside of Caysasay. According to a church inquiry, a vision appeared to a native servant girl, Catalina Talain, who had gone up the hillside with a companion to gather firewood and fetch some water.
The earliest feasts that relate to Mary grew out of the cycle of feasts that celebrate the Nativity of Jesus Christ.Given that according to the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40), forty days after the birth of Jesus, along with the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Mary was purified according to Jewish customs, the Feast of the Purification began to be celebrated by the 5th century, and became ...
The Blessed Virgin Mary carrying the Child Jesus atop a Pillar, surrounded by two or more angels Our Lady of the Pillar ( Spanish : Nuestra Señora del Pilar ) is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the context of the traditional belief that Mary, while living in Jerusalem , supernaturally appeared to the Apostle James the Greater in ...
The 1969 revision of the liturgical year and the calendar in the Roman Rite states: “1 January, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, and also the commemoration of the conferral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.” [18] [19] It deleted the 11 October feast, even for Portugal, stating ...
26 July: Saint Anne, patron of Quebec, and Saint Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast; 5 August: Blessed Frédéric Janssoone, priest – Optional Memorial; 2 September: Blessed André Grasset, priest and martyr – Optional Memorial; 4 September: Blessed Dina Bélanger, virgin – Optional Memorial
It was built over the rock where the Blessed Mother stood. The rock itself, which pilgrim make a point to kiss, is under the altar of the chapel. [6] For its devotion to Mary, Pope Pius XI called Lithuania Terra Mariana (Land of Mary). [6] Pope Pius VI approved devotions to Our Lady of Šiluva and granted indulgences for them. [5]