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Our Lady of Guadalupe Pray for us!
It is almost now about four years that I have not touched my writing pad to write. Although, past four years of my break in writing has been substituted by activities in this blog, I have been avoiding many intuitions, motivations, and compulsions of writing that used to well up time to time many times repeatedly. The avoidance has been mainly by the preoccupations with natural works. Last week, while I was watching and selecting documentaries for the blog posting, I happened to watch the documentary on Our Lady Of Guadalupe apparition and the explanation on the picture. I was so moved by each details of Our Lady of Guadalupe apparition and her picture. I was so touched to see the specific details of the apparition and the picture that served the community with the great purpose, and passion. The apparition was so reason bound then in relation to the history, and conflicts that prevailed at that time of history and it continues to be so perfectly fitting for our generation now
Mother Mary in 1500s
1541 Ocotlan (Mexico) Title: Our Lady of Ocotlan Visionary: Juan Diego Bernardino A young native Tlaxcalan man named Juan Diego Bernardino was going to draw water from a river believed at the time to have healing properties. Our Lady appeared to him and lead him to a special spring of water. She promised him that an image of herself could be found within a tree. The Franciscans discovered the image and placed it in the San Lorenzo monastery. More about this apparition >> 1543 Lowen (Belgium) Visionary: Cornelius Wischaven (1509 - 1559) (priest) Cornelius Wischaven, born in 1509 in Mechel, was ordained in 1533 and was active for fourteen years as a preacher and quiet confessor in Lowen. Having a special affection for Mary, who appeared to him in 1543, he was led by the Jesuit Father Peter Faber, as the first Flemish in the Society of Jesus where he was welcomed by Ignatius of Loyola in person. In 1547, he lived in Rome where he became a "school spirit&
Mother Mary Apparitions 1500s
1531 Guadalupe (Mexico) Bishop Approved and Recognized by Vatican Title: Our Lady of Guadalupe Visionary: St. Juan Diego Mary proclaimed herself "the Mother of the true God who gives life" and left her image permanently upon the tilma of Juan Diego, a recent convert to Christianity. More about this apparition >> May 18, 1531 WESEMLIN, LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND) Visionary: Maurice von Mettenwyl (City Councilman) and crowd Title: Queen of Angels During the night of Pentecost of 1513, the city councilor, Maurice von Mettenwyl, saw the Virgin Mary surrounded by a heavenly light and surrounded by arrows and the moon was at her feet. Mary appeared crowned and carrying the Child Jesus on her left arm, while the right hand was a scepter. Faced with this majestic appearance of the man was shocked and fell on his knees, promising to rebuild the chapel and put the portrait of Mary in her place, as she had appeared. See also: Hierzenberger 1996 p 126 More
Mother Mary Apparitions 1500s
May 4, 1521 Cori (LT) (Italia) Title: Madre delle ginestre (Our Lady of the Broom); Our Lady of Salvation Visionary: Oliva Lannese (3) The sanctuary is the place where the Madonna went to rescue a three-year-old Olive during a storm, who was found only after eight days and when she had told her story, all the church with the clergy and magistrates, went in procession to the mountain, where they unearthed a fresco with the image of the Virgin on a throne holding the arm of the Child in blessing. The fourteenth-century fresco with many successive overlays, probably belonged to an ancient chapel. On the site, the first church was consecrated in 1537 to Our Lady of the Broom. The numerous miracles attributed to the Virgin in the following years led in addition to the change of the title Our Lady of Salvation, to the construction of a new larger church, the present, consecrated in 1639. 1522 Manresa (Spain) Visionary: St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) St. Ignatius of Loyol
Mother Mary Apparitions 1500s
May 1511 Castelleone, Lombardy (Italy) Title: Holy Mary of Mercy Visionary: Domenica Zanenga (grape harvester) Mary appeared to a grape harvester urging that she work to make the building of a church in that place. The woman was immediately prepared to fulfill the wish of Our Lady. With the agreement of all the people, the church was built. In 1560, the church, a portrait of the Madonna was painted. In 1617, this place was turned into an Augustinian convent. Source: Hierzenberger 1996 p 115 1511 Treviso (Italy) Title: Liberation of Prisoners Visionary: St. Jerome Emiliani (1486-1537) When St. Jerome Emiliani was still very young, the administrator of the fortress of Castelnuovo, he was jailed a day after an enemy attack . In the solitude of prison, he sought the help of God so He began to pray, turning to the Holy Virgin Mary, "liberation of prisoners," promising that if he returned free, he would go on pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Treviso. Jerome in f
Mother Mary Apparitions 1500s
Dec 18, 1503 Villarrasa, Huelva, Andalucia, (Spain) Title: Virgen de los Remedios Feast: August 15 1503 Trino (Italy) Visionary: Bl. Maddalena Panattieri (Trino, 1443 - October 13, 1503) (1443-1503) Bl. Magdalen saw the Virgin in 1503, shortly before her death. Magdalen was beatified by Pope Leo XII. Source: Walsh, t. II, 1904, 317-319 Sept 29, 1504 Tirano (Italy) A young man prayed fervently to the Blessed Virgin Mary for the healing of his brother who was very sick. One day Mary appeared to him and promised him that his brother would be cured. In fact, shortly after it happened, in gratitude he erected a church; Inside was placed against a statue of Our Lady of Grace. In 1690, the coronation of the statue celebrated. Even today in this town, the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Tirano remains. S ource: Hierzenberger 1996 p 114 June 9, 1505 SAN POLO (Italy) Visionary: Giovanna Title: Our Lady of the Walnut July 2, 1505 León, Castile and León, Spain
Mother Mary Apparitions
c. 1500 Almonacid de Toledo, Castiglia (Spain) Visionary: unknown The Virgin appeared asking that a sanctuary be built. Source: Chiron, 1995, 70 and W.A. Christian Jr. Religosidad local en España de Felipe II, Madrid, Nerea , 1991, 103. c. 1500 Dolní Dvonste, Cesky Krumlov, South Bohemia, Czech Republic The story goes that around 1500, Mary appeared to some shepherds here atop a rock, which then split. The gap kept growing; it is said that the world will end when a hay wagon can pass through. In the 1600s, Clarissan nuns built the church of St. Mary of the Snow over the Holy Stone. A nearby chapel houses a healing spring. In 1949 Communist authorities closed the church and repurposed it as a collective farm granary, then as a military warehouse. Its Baroque fittings were looted, its stucco decorations used for target practice, its convent ruined and demolished. Following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, an international effort by German, Austrian, and Czech believers restore
Our Lady of Pettoruto Pray for us!
1500 San Sosti (Italy) Title: Our Lady of the Pettoruto Visionary: Felice Olcese, a deaf mute In the spring of 1500, a deaf-mute shepherd saw the Virgin who asked him to ask a priest for a church built in her honor. Source: Gamba, 1999, 333.
Madonna di Valverde (Holy Mary of Valverede): cantania, Italy( 1038)
Summary Situated on a charming plateau at the foot of Etna, the enchanting views of the lush green valley, until the blue expanse of the Ionian Sea, the Shrine of Our Lady of Valverde is always the destination of many pilgrims and devotees. The image of Mary, who is venerated on a pillar, is beautiful enough to be attributed not to the brush of a man, the Liturgy speaks Divinitus formed, divinely done! The tradition dates back to the apparition of the Virgin to a fierce bandit who repents. It was a bloody and dramatic time in the history of Sicily. It is the time of the clash of three civilizations: the Arab who dominated more than two centuries, the Byzantine trying to recapture their old glories, and the young Norman civilizations that succeed victor. This magnificent and dramatic scenery would be followed by wars, destruction, banditry, piracy, theft, murder and every kind of violence. Story Norman troops, allied to the Byzantines, but indignant at the unjust di
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Pray for us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qtVOa0WqU Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe View of the new and the old basilica from the Plaza de las Americas Basic information Location Villa de Guadalupe , Mexico City , Mexico Geographic coordinates 19°29′2.4″N 99°7′1.2″W Coordinates : 19°29′2.4″N 99°7′1.2″W Affiliation Catholic ( Roman Rite ) District Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico Year consecrated 12 October 1976 Ecclesiastical or organizational status Minor basilica , National Shrine Leadership Monsignor Enrique Glennie Graue [1] Website www.virgendeguadalupe.org.mx Architectural description Architect(s) José Luis Benlliure Architectural type Church Groundbreaking 1974 Completed 1976 Specifications Capacity 10,000 Height (max) 42 metres (138 ft) Dome dia. (outer) 100 metres (330 ft) The Basilica of Our Lady of G