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The image, also known as "Our Lady of Koorts" or "Our Lady of Fever" due to its longstanding claim to heal the sick, was renamed Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted by popular demand. [ 14 ] Pope Benedict XVI issued a Pontifical decree which raised the shrine of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost in Vilvoorde to the status of Minor Basilica on 1 ...
"Extreme Unction", part of The Seven Sacraments (1445–1450) by Rogier van der Weyden.. In the Catholic Church, the anointing of the sick, also known as Extreme Unction, is a Catholic sacrament that is administered to a Catholic "who, having reached the age of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age", [1] except in the case of those who "persevere obstinately in manifest ...
Musaeus of Athens (Greek: Μουσαῖος, Mousaios) was a legendary polymath, philosopher, historian, prophet, seer, priest, poet, and musician, said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose treatises, and oracular responses.
Detail of The Seven Sacraments (1445) by Rogier van der Weyden showing the sacrament of Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick. Anointing of the sick, known also by other names such as unction, is a form of religious anointing or "unction" (an older term with the same meaning) for the benefit of a sick person.
Pope Joan – 9th-century legendary figure [11] Pope Urban X – Candide (1759 satire) Pope Hadrian VII – Hadrian the Seventh (1904 novel) Pope John XXIV – Lord of the World (1907 novel) Pope Sylvester III – Lord of the World (1907 novel) Pope Kiril I – The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968 film)
Saint Pantaleon (Greek: Παντελεήμων, romanized: Panteleḗmōn, lit. 'All-compassionate'), counted in Western Christianity as among the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Late Middle Ages, and in Eastern Christianity as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, [4] was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.
St Winefride's Well (Welsh: Ffynnon Wenffrewi) is a holy well and national shrine located in the Welsh town of Holywell in Flintshire.The patron saint of the well, St Winefride, was a 7th-century Catholic martyr who according to legend was decapitated by a lustful prince and then miraculously restored to life.
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai SSCC or Saint Damien De Veuster (Dutch: Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), [2] born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, [3] a missionary religious institute.