The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the most popular feasts in the Catholic Church worldwide. In many Catholic countries in Europe‚ this feast is a holy day of obligation. The feast is based on a belief of the early Church that since Mary was sinless‚ she was rewarded by the Lord with assumption to heaven body and soul. This belief was formalized into a doctrine on November 1‚ 1950‚ by Pope Pius XII who‚ in a decree‚ declared: “We pronounce‚ declare‚ and define it to be a divinely
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by was designed by the Blessed Virgin herself. Many Catholic Christians around the world wear the Miraculous Medal‚ which they believe will bring them special graces through the intercession of Mary if worn with faith and devotion. The First Apparition The story begins on the night of July 18-19‚ 1830. A child awakened Sister Catherine Labouré‚ a novice in the community of the Daughters of Charity in Paris‚ and summoned her to the chapel. There she met with the Virgin Mary and spoke with her for
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Americas. Columbus and his conquistadors had a special devotion to the image of Mary that had appeared in the mountains of Spain that same year. Tradition tells us that St. Luke the evangelist made the image. The advocation of the image was "A Virgin of Guadalupe‚" named after the small river that passes through the mountain‚ meaning "A River of Light." The conquerors‚ Colon and Cortes‚ visited the sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe before departing on to the new land. In 1519‚ Cortes arrived
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ELIOT’S ASH WEDNESDAY: A CHRISTIAN POEM In 1930‚ just three years after his baptism and confirmation into the Anglican Church‚ T. S. Eliot published his conversion story. It was his poem Ash Wednesday.[i] He had converted amid tides of intellectuals rebelling against the over-secular society of the early twentieth century. Ash Wednesday is the chronicle of this conversion‚ told in beautiful allegories and metaphors. It portrays the struggle Eliot faced in converting. “It is a
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Dabrowska. His father was an ethnic German[6] and his mother of Polish origins. He had four brothers‚ Francis‚ Joseph‚ Walenty (who lived a year) and Andrew (who lived four years). Kolbe’s life was strongly influenced by a childhood vision of the Virgin Mary that he later described: That night‚ I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me‚ a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two crowns‚ one white‚ the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white
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“Little Miracles of ‘Virgin of the Rule’ in Opon” A long time ago‚ the great St. Augustine had carved a wonderful statue of the Virgin Mary in North Africa and then named it as ‘Virgin of the Rule’ because he made orders or rules in honor and dedication to the queen (Cuyos‚ 2005). This statue is wearing a handmade stitched satin gown which covers her whole body but these dresses changes from time to time because devotees would always donate gowns for the holy queen. “It has a long‚ dark‚ curly
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been written by many composers from a-little before baroque to the present day.Some of the writings employ four different plainchant tunes for the Ave Maris Stella; the first three were written for solemnities‚ feasts‚ and memorials of the Blessed Virgin Mary a fourth is an alternative to the memorial tone. These plainchant tones have been used as the cantus firmus for some polyphonic settings
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Madonna on the Rocks Madonna on the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci or also known as Virgin on the Rocks caused quite a commotion between Da Vinci and the commissioners due to his unorthodox methods. Madonna on Rocks was one of the only paintings left unfinished by Da Vinci. Da Vinci was commissioned to paint a alter piece for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception‚ in the Church of San Francesco Grande in Milan on April 25‚ 1483. It was debated that the conflict was due to monetary payment or
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of Fr. Bruno Venturin P.I.M.E and to the great sacrifices of all devotees. The foundation-stone was blessed and laid by the Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay. Mgr. Winnibald Menezes ‚ on the 26th of January 1975. The following year the Shrine was completed and on the occasion of the Nativity Celebrations of the Blessed Virgin Mary‚ Rt. Rev. Dr. Alfonso Beretta‚ P.I.M.E.‚ Bishop of Warangal (A.P.) blessed the Shrine on 8th September‚ 1976. A year later‚ His Eminence‚ the late Cardinal Valerian Gracias‚ graced
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The fact of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is related in Luke 1:26-38. The Evangelist tells us that in the sixth month after the conception of St. John the Baptist by Elizabeth‚ the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the Virgin Mary‚ at Nazareth‚ a small town in the mountains of Galilee. Mary was of the house of David‚ and was espoused (i.e. married) to Joseph‚ of the same royal family. She had‚ however‚ not yet entered the household of her spouse‚ but was still in her mother’s house
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