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Our Lady of Ratisbon (Bavaria, Germany)
Notre Dame de Puy-le-Dome (France)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame du Puy is one of the oldest Marian sanctuaries in Europe, since pilgrims have been coming here since the V century. The Black Virgin is venerated here especially on the 25th. March, the day of the Annunciation, and on the 15th. August, feast of the Assumption, when her statue is carried in procession by local inhabitants through the streets of Le Puy.
Notre-Dame-du-Port, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme, Auvergne, France
Clermont-Ferrand is located on a plain in the volcanic region of central France. Unlike most hub cities, it is not on a body of water. And yet for a thousand years Clermont's eastern district has been known as the Port. In the crypt of its Romanesque church of Our Lady of the Port, dating to the early 1100s, is an unusual Black Virgin, a polychromed walnut statue just under a foot high, carved by the Paquin family workshop in 1734. Mary cradles the child against her cheek, as in Eleusa or Tenderness icons such as the pre-Iconoclastic Glykophilousa of Mt. Athos; the Virgin of Vladimir, sent from Constantinople to Kiev in 1131; and Notre-Dame de Grâce, given in 1450 to Cambrai Cathedral in northern France.
Our Lady of Light (Cainta, Philippines)
The Jesuits began the construction of the original church of Cainta in 1707. The stone church, which was then under the patronage of St. Andrew the Apostle, was completed in 1716.
The devotion to Madre Santissima del Lumen (also known as Our Lady of Light, Nuestra Señora de la Luz , Virgen ng Caliuanagan, and Maria, Ina ng Kaliwanagan) was introduced in 1727 through a painting brought by the Jesuits to Cainta from Sicily. The painting, which is an elaborate rendition of an Italian visionary’s account of the Blessed Virgin’s apparition, depicted Mary as mother, protector, and queen.
María Santísima de la Paz, Torredonjimeno, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain
In 1987, sculptor Juan Ventura carved the cedarwood statue of St. Mary of Peace for the Confraternity of the Most Holy Risen Christ, which stages a dramatic reenactment of the risen Jesus and his mother every Easter.
On December 1, 2007, the image was installed in the parish church of Santa María. Juan Ventura (b. 1954) is a Sevillan imagenero, religious image-maker, practicing an art long associated with the Catholic brotherhoods of the Spanish-speaking world. A disciple of sculptor Francisco Buiza (1922-1983), who studied under Sebastián Santos (1895-1976), he has fashioned devotional statues for groups throughout southern Spain. Cordoban imagenero Francisco Romero Zafra (b. 1956) restored the image of Our Lady of Peace in 2000. The Confraternity celebrates the feast of St. Mary of Peace in the parish church of St. Mary on January 24.[4]
Our Lady of Ratisbon (Bavaria, Germany)
Notre Dame de Puy-le-Dome (France)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame du Puy is one of the oldest Marian sanctuaries in Europe, since pilgrims have been coming here since the V century. The Black Virgin is venerated here especially on the 25th. March, the day of the Annunciation, and on the 15th. August, feast of the Assumption, when her statue is carried in procession by local inhabitants through the streets of Le Puy.
Notre-Dame-du-Port, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme, Auvergne, France
Clermont-Ferrand is located on a plain in the volcanic region of central France. Unlike most hub cities, it is not on a body of water. And yet for a thousand years Clermont's eastern district has been known as the Port. In the crypt of its Romanesque church of Our Lady of the Port, dating to the early 1100s, is an unusual Black Virgin, a polychromed walnut statue just under a foot high, carved by the Paquin family workshop in 1734. Mary cradles the child against her cheek, as in Eleusa or Tenderness icons such as the pre-Iconoclastic Glykophilousa of Mt. Athos; the Virgin of Vladimir, sent from Constantinople to Kiev in 1131; and Notre-Dame de Grâce, given in 1450 to Cambrai Cathedral in northern France.
Our Lady of Light (Cainta, Philippines)
The Jesuits began the construction of the original church of Cainta in 1707. The stone church, which was then under the patronage of St. Andrew the Apostle, was completed in 1716.
The devotion to Madre Santissima del Lumen (also known as Our Lady of Light, Nuestra Señora de la Luz , Virgen ng Caliuanagan, and Maria, Ina ng Kaliwanagan) was introduced in 1727 through a painting brought by the Jesuits to Cainta from Sicily. The painting, which is an elaborate rendition of an Italian visionary’s account of the Blessed Virgin’s apparition, depicted Mary as mother, protector, and queen.
María Santísima de la Paz, Torredonjimeno, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain
In 1987, sculptor Juan Ventura carved the cedarwood statue of St. Mary of Peace for the Confraternity of the Most Holy Risen Christ, which stages a dramatic reenactment of the risen Jesus and his mother every Easter.
On December 1, 2007, the image was installed in the parish church of Santa María. Juan Ventura (b. 1954) is a Sevillan imagenero, religious image-maker, practicing an art long associated with the Catholic brotherhoods of the Spanish-speaking world. A disciple of sculptor Francisco Buiza (1922-1983), who studied under Sebastián Santos (1895-1976), he has fashioned devotional statues for groups throughout southern Spain. Cordoban imagenero Francisco Romero Zafra (b. 1956) restored the image of Our Lady of Peace in 2000. The Confraternity celebrates the feast of St. Mary of Peace in the parish church of St. Mary on January 24.[4]
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