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by bcadmin | Jul 17, 2022 | Associated Press, Chile, Church in the Americas, marian shrines, News | 0 |
With the snow-covered Andes shining in the background, several dozen cowboys in woolen ponchos and families on wooden horse carts lined up Saturday to receive a priest’s blessing in the huge esplanade in front of the National Sanctuary of Maipú.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, marian shrines, Melkite Catholic Church, News, sanctuary | 0 |
In the village of Maghdouché, overlooking the ancient Mediterranean coastal city of Sidon, a statue of the Blessed Mother holding the infant Jesus graces the hilltop. It is also the site where holy tradition says Mary waited for her Jesus while he was preaching in Sidon and Tyre, thus the name, “Our Lady of Mantara,” or “waiting.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Ireland, marian shrines, News, Our Lady of Knock | 0 |
Pope Francis has elevated the National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock to the status of an International Shrine of Eucharistic and Marian Devotion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2020 | Aparecida, Associated Press, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Jair Bolsonaro, marian shrines, News | 0 |
Inside, there was nothing massive about the Mass: Just 1,000 people were spaced carefully across the pews of a vast basilica that normally holds 35,000 as the Catholic Church tried to protect parishioners from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2020 | Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Detroit, marian shrines, News, Our Lady of Fatima | 0 |
A Detroit-area chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and her appearance to children in Europe in 1917 has been declared a local Catholic shrine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Ireland, Knock, marian shrines, News, Our Lady of Knock | 0 |
The Marian shrine at Knock announced Aug. 10 that in addition to postponing the popular Knock Novena and pilgrimage because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shrine and its church would be closed for the Aug. 15 feast of the Assumption of Mary to ensure pilgrims do not arrive anyway.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, France, Lourdes, Lourdes United, marian shrines, News, Our Lady of Lourdes | 0 |
One of the Catholic Church’s holiest sites, Lourdes, is holding its first-ever online pilgrimage on Thursday, to mark the anniversary of claims by 19th-century girl Bernadette Soubirous that the Virgin Mary appeared to her.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, diocese of Belleville, Illinois, marian shrines, News | 0 |
A restaurant has closed after more than 50 years at a popular Catholic site in southwestern Illinois.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2020 | Alberta, Canada, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Diocese of Calgary, marian shrines, News | 0 |
Bishop William McGrattan dedicated a new 17,000-square-foot Marian shrine May 30, during a Mass that was livestreamed on the Diocese of Calgary’s Facebook page because of the restrictions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Great Britain, Live stream, marian shrines, News, United Kingdom | 0 |
English Catholics rededicated their country as Mary’s Dowry “in the eye of the storm” of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, England, lead, marian shrines, News, Our Lady of Walsingham | 0 |
Noting that the Church is “ever ancient and ever new,” the rector of Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham said the March 29 rededication of England as the “Dowry of Mary” will help the country face “the personal and national challenges of our day.”
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