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Our Lady of the Snows Parish Church, Budapest, Hungary; Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy; also called "Our Lady of the Snows" Our Lady of the Snows, Quarantoli, Modena, Italy; Knisja tal-Madonna tas-Silġ, near the nearby ancient site of Tas-Silġ, Malta; Our Lady of the Snows Parish, El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, Philippines; Our Lady of the ...
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Santa Maria della Neve, or Our Lady of the Snows, the dedication and alternative name for Santa Maria Maggiore, Roman Catholic papal basilica in Rome; Santa Maria della Neve, Pisogne, Roman Catholic church in Pisogne, Italy; Santa Maria della Neve al Portico, Roman Catholic church and convent located in Florence, Italy
A small chapel, built in 1940, situated in the center of the Alpe d'Huez, was initially dedicated to the Marian cult.In 1960, the priest, Jaap Reuten, asked Jean Le Boucher and architect Jean Marol to build a church-shaped tent, representing Abraham, the first Biblical patriarch, to replace the chapel with a structure visible from the Meije, in preparation for the Olympic Games of 1968.
Until 1969 the feast was known as Dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Nives (Dedication of the Church of Our Lady of the Snows), a name that had become popular for the Basilica in the 14th century [6] in connection with a legend about its origin that the Catholic Encyclopedia summarizes: (in the middle of the 4th century) "During the pontificate of Liberius, the Roman patrician John and his wife, who ...
Built in the mid-nineteenth century, it stands in a square called the Piazza Santa Maria della Neve and is dedicated to the Madonna of the Snow (in Italian: Madonna della Neve; also, Our Lady of the Snows, Nostra Signora della Neve), the patron saint of Nuoro, whose cult is closely linked to the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome.
Reference to the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows appears in a report by Gabriel Soares, who wrote in 1587 about "a new church of Our Lady of the Snows, with a fine finish, as part of the sugar plantation belonging to André Fernandes Margalho." A Its construction predates that of the Jesuit College in Salvador, built between 1561 and 1585. [1]
Grünewald's painting was the right wing of the Altar of Our Lady of the Snows in the collegiate church in Aschaffenburg. In an unknown date, the work was sent to Bad Mergentheim, and in the original place only the original frames with the artist's signature and the date of 1519 remained. The middle part was a representation of the Madonna with ...