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    Title of The: Roman Catholic Blessed Virgin Mary

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    Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic title for the Virgin Mary that refers to an ancient icon. The icon is one of the most well-known religious images for Catholics and was formerly the subject of weekly devotional services. The history of the original icon traces it back to 1495 on the island of Crete, from where it was brought to Rome. It was privately held for some time, with the Virgin Mary appearing in dreams urging it be placed in a church. It was eventually solemnly processed to the Church of St Matthew the Apostle in 1499, where miracles were reported even before its placement and it became a highly visited pilgrimage site for centuries.

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    Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic title for the Virgin Mary that refers to an ancient icon. The icon is one of the most well-known religious images for Catholics and was formerly the subject of weekly devotional services. The history of the original icon traces it back to 1495 on the island of Crete, from where it was brought to Rome. It was privately held for some time, with the Virgin Mary appearing in dreams urging it be placed in a church. It was eventually solemnly processed to the Church of St Matthew the Apostle in 1499, where miracles were reported even before its placement and it became a highly visited pilgrimage site for centuries.

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    Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic title for the Virgin Mary that refers to an ancient icon. The icon is one of the most well-known religious images for Catholics and was formerly the subject of weekly devotional services. The history of the original icon traces it back to 1495 on the island of Crete, from where it was brought to Rome. It was privately held for some time, with the Virgin Mary appearing in dreams urging it be placed in a church. It was eventually solemnly processed to the Church of St Matthew the Apostle in 1499, where miracles were reported even before its placement and it became a highly visited pilgrimage site for centuries.

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    Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Lady of

    Perpetual Succour) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed


    Virgin Mary.
    The icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is one of the most
    well-known and loved images of the Blessed Virgin known to
    Catholics. For many years, a weekly holy hour or novena in
    honor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was common in many
    parish churches all over the world, the custom continues in many
    places to this day.
    The history of the original icon can be traced back to the year
    1495, when the image, already considered ancient, was enshrined
    in a church on the island of Crete. When the island was threatened by Turks, the icon was
    carried off — possibly stolen — by a merchant. He _____( take) it with him to Rome. Shortly
    after arriving there, the man _______(became) ill. Before his death he ______(ask) a friend
    to take the icon to one of the churches in Rome so that it could be publicly venerated.
    After his death, however, the friend’s wife _______(persuade) her husband to allow her to
    keep the painting in their home, where it ________( remain) for several months. One night
    the Blessed Virgin _______(appear) to the man in a dream, warning him not to keep the
    picture. Twice she appeared to him with this message, and both times he _______(not pay)
    attention to her warning. The third time she ______(tell) him that if he did not do it, he
    would die a miserable death. This time the man ______( try) to persuade his wife to give the
    painting, but she ______(not want). Our Lady appeared to the man again to tell him of his
    death; within a short time, he became sick and ______(die).
    Our Lady then appeared to the man’s 6-year-old daughter, telling her to tell her mother,
    “Holy Mother of Perpetual Help commands you to take her out of your house!” The mother
    _____(see)a similar vision, she was terrified and was about to give the picture to a church
    when a neighbor woman persuaded her that it was just a dream and that she should pay no
    attention to it. That night the neighbor became violently ill, so he ______(make) a solemn
    promise to the Lady of the picture, then she was immediately cured. Again the Blessed Virgin
    appeared to the young girl, this time commanding her to tell her mother to place her picture
    in a certain church between St. Mary Major’s and St. John Lateran’s. That very day, March
    27, 1499, the picture was taken in solemn procession to the church of St. Matthew the
    Apostle, where it was placed above the exquisite white-marble altar. The church itself was
    very small. Then, miraculous graces ______( begin) even before the image _____(entere) its
    walls, with a paralyzed man was cured as the procession passed by his house.
    The history of the image up to this point was written in both Latin and Italian on a large
    piece of parchment, which for many years was hung next to the icon in St. Matthew’s Church.
    Copies of the parchment are now kept in the Vatican Library.
    For the next three hundred years, this humble church was one of the most popular pilgrimage
    places in Rome because of the miraculous picture.
    On 23 June 1867, Pope Pius IX granted the image its Canonical Coronation along with its
    present title. The feast day of the image is celebrated on June 27, with novena devotions held
    every Wednesday

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