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The Miracle of Our Lady of the Snows represents the legendary origins of the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. One night, Pope Liberius and one of the Roman patricians had an identical dream in which Our Lady ordered a church to be erected in a place where snow would fall in the middle of Summer. The next day, the Esquilin hill was ...
Our Lady of Navigators is a highly venerated Madonna in Brazil. The devotion started by the 15th century Portuguese navigators, praying for a safe return to their homes and then spread in Brazil. Images of, and devotions to, Madonnas such as Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos have spread from Mexico to the United States. [53] [54]
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Polish: Czarna Madonna z Częstochowy; Latin: Imago thaumaturga Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae Conceptae, in Claro Monte, lit. 'Miraculous Image of the Immaculate Conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Crystal Mountain'), also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa (Polish: Matka Boska Częstochowska) is a venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary housed ...
Rubens, 1626, the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary does not appear in the New Testament, but appears in apocryphal literature of the 3rd and 4th centuries, and by 1000 was widely believed in the Western Church, though not made formal Catholic dogma until 1950. [1]
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
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 ...
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Devotion to Our Lady of the Snows was first introduced to the Midwest in 1941 by missioner Father Paul Schulte, OMI. [1] A small corner shrine was set up in a chapel at St. Henry's seminary in Belleville. In 1943 the Oblates began to hold a novena in honor of Our Lady of the Snows.