Our Lady of Perpetual Help

our might be well familiar with the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, widely venerated all over the world. An icon, painted on wood (about 54 x 41.5 centimeters), is believed to have originated around the thirteenth century. The image is also known as “Our Lady of Perpetual Succor.”


The theme of the image
The icon depicts our Blessed Mother Mary, under the title “Mother of God,” holding the Child Jesus. The Archangels Michael Michael (in the left corner) and Gabriel (in the right corner) hold the instruments of the Passion. The intent of the artist was to portray the Child Jesus contemplating the vision of His future Passion.


The Tradition
According to a popular tradition, a merchant purchased the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help from the island of Crete. As he was carrying back this icon to Rome in a ship, a terrible storm arose, and everyone in the ship were in panic. They prayed to the Blessed Mother, and were saved.
Many years later, in Rome, the merchant who was nearing his death ordered that the image should be displayed for public veneration. After his death the image was left with his friend. One night his little daughter had an apparition of the Blessed Mother, who expressed the desire for the image to be venerated in a Church between the Basilicas of St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran in Rome. The image, consequently, was housed at the Church of St. Matthew, and became known as “The Madonna of Saint Matthew.”


When Napoleon’s troops destroyed the Church of St. Matthew in 1812, the image was transferred to the Church of St. Mary in Posterula. It remained there for about forty years, neglected and forgotten.


But, the providence of God acted, and the image was rediscovered. In 1866, Blessed Pope Pius IX entrusted the image to the Redemptorists, who had just built the Church of St. Alphonsus, down the street from St. Mary Major. He ordered the public display and veneration of the image, and fixed the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help as the Sunday before the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.


In 1867, when the image was being carried in a solemn procession through the streets, a young child was cured, the first of many recorded miracles attributed to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

മരിയൻ ടൈംസിന്റെ വാട്സാപ്പ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിലേക്ക് സ്വാഗതം . നിങ്ങൾ വാട്സാപ്പ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിൽ അംഗമായി കഴിയുമ്പോൾ ഓരോ ദിവസത്തെയും അപ്ഡേറ്റുകൾ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ലഭിക്കുന്നതാണ്

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മരിയന്‍ ടൈംസില്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്ന വാര്‍ത്തകളും ലേഖനങ്ങളും വീഡിയോകളും മരിയന്‍ ടൈംസിന്റെ മൊബൈല്‍ ആപ്പിലൂടെ നിങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് നേരിട്ട് ലഭിക്കും.

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