Our Lady of Consolation
[9] Members are obliged to wear a black leather belt, to fast on the vigil of the feast of Saint Augustine and to recite daily the "Little Rosary of Our Lady of Consolation" which is composed of thirteen couplets of beads.
Pope Benedict XVI granted a decree of canonical coronation for the venerated 17th—century image of Our Lady of Consolation in Sumampa, Argentina, on 21 November 2009.
Pope Francis issued a decree to raise the namesake shrine in Sampacho to the status of minor basilica on 12 March 2024 for the Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto.
[13] Pope Pius X granted a decree of pontifical coronation on 16 June 1907 towards a Pietà image dating from 1535 in the Franciscan church of Leuven.
[14] Pope Benedict XVI issued a Pontifical decree which raised the shrine of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost in Vilvoorde to the status of Minor Basilica on 1 March 2006.
The dioceses of Vannes, Valence, Montpelier, Laval, Nantes, Périgueux, Tours and many others, dedicated churches or chapels to Our Lady of Consolation.
Pious legends claim that Saint Eusebius of Vercelli brought back an icon of Our Lady of Consolation when he was returning from exile in Alexandria, Egypt in 363 A.D.
Later on Bishop Maximus of Turin established a small shrine to house the icon in a church dedicated to Saint Andrew the Apostle.
The rite of coronation was granted and executed by the former Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Index, Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli in a public religious event.
Another namesake image in Rome is enshrined since 23 June 1385, a condemned prisoner named Giordanello degli Alberini was in the Campidoglio waiting to be executed, entrusts his testamentary dispositions to the Roman notary Pietro Mancini.
According to Giovanni Antonio Bruzio, on that road corresponding to the ancient vico iugario there were the granaries of the Mattei Roman patricians.
Pope Urban VIII further approved the venerated image recognized by the Vatican Chapter, which was promoted by Count Alessandro Sforza and Pontifically crowned on 7 December 1634.
[18] The devotion started when the Bishop of Cavaillon, Girolamo Cancelli invited twelve friars of the Order of Capuchins to the site donated by the Italian nobleman Giovanni Bernardo Mileto where an existing smaller statue of the "Madonna of Consolation" was already enshrined.
The Italian nobleman Lord Camillo Diano tasked the artisan Nicolò Andrea Capriolo in 1547 to make a larger image under this title.
According to pious legend, this large painting mysteriously disappeared from its original place in Reggio Calabria Cathedral, only to be re-discovered by a young shepherd on the nearby hill of Eremo.
The faithful took this as a supernatural sign from the Blessed Virgin Mary and built a church on the exact site where the icon had appeared.
The rite of coronation was executed by the former Archbishop of Salerno, Valerio Laspro on 1 October 1906 for the image venerated in the Church of Our Lady of Consolation in San Valentino Torio.
Pope Francis presented a Golden Rose to the Marian statue on 26 September 2024, in conclusion of the meeting in the Notre Dame Cathedral of Luxembourg with the catholic community and national authorities.
The venerated image of Our Lady of Consolation is a small carving of the seated virgin in the late Byzantine style, which dates back to the end of the 14th century, although its external appearance was later modified to adapt it to the tastes of the baroque prevailing in lower Andalusia.
[45] Pope John Paul II later issued a Pontifical decree Populum et Fideles Christianorum on 7 March 1989 declaring this Marian title as the official city patroness of Utrera.
[46] According to pious legend, the original Marian image was discovered in 1212, when the province of La Mancha was reconquered after the Christian victory in Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa and a chapel was later built in her honor.
The eldest statue of Our Lady of Consolation in the United States was brought by a Luxembourg immigrant, Anna Margaret Deppiesse, in 1849 and later donated to Saint Nicholas Church.
[48] During the American Civil War, three parishioners of Saint Augustine's Parish in Leopold, Indiana, fought for the North and were imprisoned at Andersonville Prison.
Former Belgian nationals, Henry Devillez, Isidore Naviaux and Lambert Rogier, vowed that if they survived, one of them would make a pilgrimage to Luxembourg and obtain a copy of the statue of Our Lady of Consolation that stood in their ancestral church.
[49] One of the two main celebrations held each year in the Tacony section of Philadelphia were Our Lady of Consolation's Feast Day Parade.
[50] Pope Paul VI raised the namesake Marian shrine to the status of Minor Basilica in Carey, Ohio via his Pontifical decree Quam Prope Assit on 21 October 1971.
Pope John XXIII raised the Marian shrine to the status of Minor Basilica via his Pontifical Decree Solacium ac Levationem on 20 October 1959.
The same Pontiff later granted a pontifical decree of coronation titled Alacres Dei on 9 November 1959 towards the namesake image enshrined at the Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation, Táriba, Venezuela.
