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The chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the church of the Annunciation and St Rita of Cascia in Nice, France.
Notre-Dame des Victoires
A stained glass window depicting Our Lady of Victories.
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Mater Admirabilis, ora pro nobis!
A Parisian engraving of the miraculous image of the Mother Most Admirable in the church of Trinita dei Monti, Rome.
The words ‘Ego flos campi et lilium convallium’ are taken from the Song of Solomon and translate as: I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys.
Notre-Dame de la Fin-des-Terres
The miraculous statue venerated in the pilgrimage basilica in Soulac-sur-Mer, France.
Mary holds a lily as a sign of her purity, while the ship is a reference to her title Star of the Sea.
The shrine of the miraculous black Virgin in the cathedral of Le Puy, France.
A medieval pièta in Corrèze, France.
Today it is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. For many Christians this is a time of prayer, penance and fasting in preparation of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Pilgrims filling bottles with water from the spring in the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes.
The location of the spring was described to Bernadette Soubirous by Mary in February 1858. Since that time millions of pilgrims have followed Mary’s instruction to “drink at the spring and wash in it”.
Although never actively encouraged by the Church, Lourdes water has become a focus of the pilgrimage to the French shrine. The water is believed to possess healing power. Miraculous springs are also found at many other Marian shrines around the world.
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which commemorates the apparition of Mary to the 14 year old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in 1858.
Nowadays the French town is one of the world’s most popular Marian shrines.
A Lady chapel in the church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Èze, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
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