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Our Lady of Mount Carmel with angels and souls in Purgatory. Baroque sculpture from Beniaján (Spain). Since the Middle Ages, Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been related to Purgatory and purgation from sins after death. In some images, she is portrayed as accompanied with angels and persons wearing Brown Scapulars, who plead for her mediation.
Shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat, Santos, São Paulo: Pope Pius XII Our Lady of Mount Carmel: 16 July 1961: Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mariana, Minas Gerais: Pope John XXIII [31] Our Lady of the Rosary [32] 7 December 1961: Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, Ubá: Pope John XXIII [u] Our Lady of the Pillar [33] 8 July 1963
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Franciscans continue to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of the Angels of the Porzioncula on August 2, [4] which marks the dedication of the church. [5] The Portiuncula Indulgence could at first be gained only in the Portiuncula chapel between the afternoon of 1 August and sunset on 2 August. [6]
From the rose garden, one enters the Rose Chapel. This was the cell where St. Francis rested and spent the rest of the night in prayer and penance. Here St. Francis also met Saint Anthony of Padua. After his death a chapel was built in the 13th century and enlarged in the 15th century by St. Bernardine of Siena.
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).
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The Prophet Elijah is regarded as the spiritual father of the Carmelite order.. The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Catholic Church for both men and women.