Shrines to Mary, mother of Jesus
In Christian culture and practice, a shrine to the Virgin Mary or Marian shrine is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion. Such locales are often the destination of pilgrimages.
Many of the shrines have acquired a symbolic value for patriotism and nationalism in their area.
Among the shrines considered most significant for their apparitions:
- Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers[1] at Bayside, New York
- Holy Mary of Third Millennium at Three Fountains, Rome, Italy http://www.divinarivelazione.org/eng/index2.html
- Our Lady of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal
- The Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico
- The Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of Ireland in Knock, Ireland
- Loreto, Italy
- The Black Madonna of Czestochowa in Czestochowa, Poland
- The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen in Lichen, Poland
- The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France
- The Sanctuary of the Black Virgin of Montserrat, Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain
- The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
- Our Lady of La Vang in La Vang, Vietnam
- Our Lady of the Island in Eastport, New York (Long Island)
- Our Lady of La Salette in La Salette, France
- Our Lady of Walsingham in Walsingham, England
- Our Lady of Ipswich in Ipswich, England
- Our Lady of Ostra Brama in Vilnius, Lithuania
- Our Lady of Good Health Vailankanni, India
- Our Lady of China in Donglu, China
- the Virgin of Sheshan, Help of Christians in Sheshan, China
- Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Manaoag in Manaoag, Pangasinan, Philippines
- Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Nuestra Senora de la Naval De Manila in Quezon City, Philippines
Other shrines include:
- Our Lady of Bliss near Guiyang, China
- Covadonga, Asturias, Spain.
- Guadalupe, Spain.
- Our Lady of Heiloo in the Netherlands
- the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Longtian, China
- the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Qingyang, China
- the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC
- Shrine of Our Lady, Bradstowe
- The "sweet mother" in the cathedral of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.
- Valvanera, Spain
- Our Lady of Sorrows in Warfhuizen, the Netherlands.
- Our Lady of Combermere in Ontario, Canada.
- House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus, Turkey.
- The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mellieħa in Mellieħa, Malta
- Santwarju tal-Madonna tal-Ghar, Rabat, Malta
- Santwarju tal-Madonna ta' Pinu, Gharb,Gozo
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sanctuary, Valletta,Malta
- Our Lady of Poondy, Tamilnadu, India
- Robinsonville Chapel, near Champion, Wisconsin in rural Brown County
- National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, in Attleboro, Massachusetts
- National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, in Belleville, Illinois
- National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, in Perryville, Missouri
- Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, in Rhineland, Missouri
- Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos, in Jefferson County, Missouri
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin
- Sanctuary of macereto, in Italy
Use in personal names
In Hispanic culture, Marian shrines are a frequent source of female names of the form María de [...]. Some names omit Mary/María and include only the prominent source of the sobriquet (e.g. Pilar from Nuestra Senora del Pilar, or Lourdes from Our Lady of Lourdes).