Our Lady of Luján
Patroness of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, venerated in a small terracotta image of the Immaculate Conception at the great basilica on the Luján river.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary
Marian titles and the Church-approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Patroness of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, venerated in a small terracotta image of the Immaculate Conception at the great basilica on the Luján river.
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary venerated at Manaoag in Pangasinan, the Dominican shrine to which Filipinos come in enormous numbers to ask her prayers.
Mary invoked as the merciful Mother who moves her children to free captives, under whose patronage the Mercedarian Order was founded.
The dark Romanesque Virgin of the Benedictine abbey of Montserrat, patroness of Catalonia, venerated on the serrated mountain above Barcelona.
Mary venerated as patroness of the Carmelite Order and giver of the Brown Scapular.
Patroness of the Bicol region of the Philippines, honoured at Naga with a nine-day novena and a river procession that carries her image home along the Naga River.
Mary venerated through the celebrated Byzantine-style icon entrusted to the Redemptorist order.
Mary invoked as the swift helper of New Orleans and Louisiana, credited with sparing the city from fire and from defeat in battle.
Mary venerated at the hilltop basilica of Sheshan outside Shanghai under the title Help of Christians, and invoked by the whole Church on 24 May as the patroness of Catholics in China.
Mary as Mater Dolorosa, the Sorrowful Mother, who shared in her Son's Passion. Seven sorrows are traditionally honored.
Patroness of Honduras, venerated in an image only a few centimetres high that has been kept at Suyapa, near Tegucigalpa, since the eighteenth century.
The national Marian shrine of Malta, on the island of Gozo, grown from a small country chapel where a farm woman said in 1883 that she had heard a call to stop and pray.
The patronal title of Costa Rica, taken from a small dark stone image of the Virgin and Child venerated at Cartago, to which the whole country walks in pilgrimage each August.
Our Lady of the Atonement is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary first invoked by Father Paul Louis T. Wattson, S.A. and Mother Lurana White, S.A, the founders of the Society of the Atonement.
Mary venerated under the title revealed in 1830 through the medal she requested of Saint Catherine Labouré.
Mary venerated at Zaragoza in Spain, where ancient tradition holds she appeared to the Apostle Saint James while still living, standing upon a pillar of jasper.
Mary venerated under the title of the Rosary, the great Marian psalter of the Latin Church.
Mary venerated in the great shrine of Pompeii, the center of devotion to the Holy Rosary built by Blessed Bartolo Longo.
Mary venerated under the title commemorated by the dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, the greatest of her churches in the West.
Our Lady of the Turning Eyes is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a moving and weeping statue in Rottweil in present day Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Pilgrims come from Alsace, Lake Constance, and Switzerland, among other places.
The great Marian shrine of India, on the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu, where Mary is invoked as Our Lady of Good Health by Catholics and by pilgrims of other faiths alike.
Mary invoked as the cause of victory through the power of the Holy Rosary, especially commemorating the deliverance of Christendom at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
Mary venerated at the English shrine of Walsingham, long called 'England's Nazareth,' commemorating the mystery of the Annunciation.
Mary invoked as Queen of Peace, the Mother who brings forth the Prince of Peace and intercedes for reconciliation among peoples.
The invocation asks the sinless Mother to be a shelter for sinners — not a hiding place from her Son's judgement, but the place where sinners are brought back to his mercy.
Mary honored under the ancient title Seat of Wisdom, the throne upon which the Incarnate Wisdom of God, her Son, took his place.
Mary honored under the ancient title Stella Maris, the guiding star who leads the faithful safely across the sea of this life to the harbor of salvation.
Mary remained a virgin in conceiving her Son, a virgin in giving birth to him, a virgin in carrying him, a virgin in nursing him at her breast, always a virgin.
Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth because she is the Mother of the King of kings and shares in the glory of her Son.
Mary is invoked as Queen of the Apostles because she was with the Twelve in the Upper Room, persevering in prayer, when the Spirit came upon the Church that was about to be sent out.