Beata Vergine di San Luca, Bologna, Italy , 1160 - First Saturday before Feast of the Ascension
The story was that a Greek holy man named Theocles Kmnia, praying before this icon in the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople, saw an inscription on it: "This work made by St. Luke, Chancellor of Christ, must be taken to the Church of St. Luke on ...
Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio, Farroupilha, Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil , 1432 - Fourth Sunday of May, May 26
n 1879, Italians from Lombardy built a chapel for their settlement in southern Brazil. Short on sacred art, they dedicated the chapel to the saint someone offered a picture of, the Madonna di Caravaggio. Today the shrine hosts over a million pilgrims...
Madonna Addolorata, Cefalà Diana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy , 1967 - May 26
At Cefalà Diana, a small village of 992 inhabitants, situated on a hill in the interior of the province of Palermo, Mary. appeared near the ruins of a castle, May 26, 1967, four boys as "Mother of Sorrows" and in tears....
Onze Lieve Vrouw van Amersfoort, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands , 1444 - First Saturday before Feast of the Ascension
On this day, eight days before the feast of Pentecost, a silent procession begins at 7:30 a.m. in the central Dutch city of Amersfoort. The Lady Walk visits the place where in 1444 a housekeeper named Margriete Gysen found a clay statue of the Virgin...
Mare de Déu de Canòlich, Canòlich, Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra , 1223 - Fourth Saturday of May, July 14
The story goes that on July 14, 1223, a shepherd was pasturing his flock near the village of Canòlich in southern Andorra, when suddenly a bird with brilliant plumage alit on an outcrop. The shepherd approached, caught the bird with no trouble, and ...
Mother of God of Rzevsk, Okovtsy, Selizharovsky, Tver, Russia , 1539 - May 26, July 24
On Pentecost Sunday, May 26, 1539, a monk named Stephen discovered two holy objects attached to trees at a crossroads near Rzev in northwest Russia. One one pine was a large iron cross; on another, an old icon depicting the Holy Mother and Child with...