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Hace 3 días · Ireland's International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, is the site of an Apparition in 1879
Hace 2 días · CHAPEL IMAGERY. As well as the Statue of Our Lady, several images of Mary decorate the Slipper Chapel. Over the altar is the east window, the work of Geoffrey Webb in 1953 to commemorate the definition of the Dogma of the Assumption of 1950. The centenary window of the Annunciation is over the doors at the west end.
Hace 3 días · Besides the people of Tamil Nadu, thousands of pilgrims from across the country and outside, especially from the Catholic heartlands of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Mumbai and other parts of India, flock to the shrine. The Sept. 8 feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, preceded by a novena, draws nearly 2 million pilgrims each year.
Hace 4 días · Many held their phones over their heads to capture the historic moment. Even though it was a Sunday, the students of St. Dominic Catholic School proudly wore their school uniforms. Antonia Salzano Acutis, Blessed Carlo Acutis’ mother, prays after installing the relic of her son in the new shrine dedicated to his life on Oct. 1.
Hace 4 días · Msgr. Moger arrived at Walsingham in September 2020. But 2020 was no normal year. The shrine was largely empty as the COVID-19 pandemic still raged across England. He explained: “The much smaller number of pilgrims in the late summer, before the current lockdown, meant that I didn’t see the shrine at its normal pace in September when I ...
Hace 4 días · The altar and shrine in the Slipper Chapel at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (photo: Thorvaldsson / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0) Although shrines are not subject to the specific restrictions introduced by Pope Francis in 2021, Bishop Peter Collins has not granted permission for traditional Latin Masses to be celebrated in Walsingham, England’s national shrine.
