Our Lady of Graces
title of the Virgin Mary
Our Lady of Graces (Italian: Madonna delle Grazie or Nostra Signora delle Grazie) or Saint Mary of Graces (Italian: Santa Maria delle Grazie) is a devotion to the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. Several churches with this dedication often owe their foundation to thankfulness for graces received from the Virgin Mary, and are particularly numerous in Italy, India, Australia, United States, Portugal, France and the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. Also it is related to the Marian apparitions in which was revealed the Miraculous Medal, also known as the Medal of Our Lady of Graces.
Patronage
Our Lady of Graces is the patroness saint of the diocese of Faenza. According to a legend, in 1412, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a local woman. Mary was holding broken arrows symbolizing protection against God's wrath and promised an end to the plagues. Faenza Cathedral has a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, while residents often place ceramic titles with the image on their homes.
Other Italian towns that have Our Lady of Graces as their patroness saint include:
San Giovanni Rotondo (as co-patroness)
Minturno
Cautano
Decimoputzu
Ricadi
Sanluri
Toritto
Cotignac
Local tradition holds that in August 1519, Mary appeared to a woodcutter and requested a church be built and dedicated to her as "Our Lady of Graces". The Church of Our Lady of Graces in Cotignac was ransacked during the Revolution, but later restored.
Churches
Italy
Poland
Jesuit Church, Warsaw
Kielce Cathedral
India
Delhi
Basilica of Our Lady of Graces, Sardhana, famous for faith healing
Philippines
The Oblates of Mary Immaculate established Our Lady of Grace Parish on 5 May 1946, making it the oldest among the five parishes under the Vicariate of the Our Lady of Grace of the Diocese of Caloocan.
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