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Our Lady (Virgin) of Montserrat (La Moreneta)
Marganell, Catalonia, Spain
High on a serrated mountain above Catalonia, the Black Madonna of Montserrat has drawn pilgrims for over a thousand years....
Black Madonna of Kaltenleutgeben
Kaltenleutgeben, Lower Austria, Austria
In this baroque church south of Vienna, a copy of the famous Altotting Black Madonna has drawn pilgrims since 1712....
Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics
Maria Stein, Ohio, United States
In rural western Ohio, surrounded by farmland and the steeples of over thirty cross-tipped churches, the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics holds one of the largest...
Black Madonna of Moulins
Moulins, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
In Moulins Cathedral, a Black Madonna holds the Christ child who blesses the world with one hand while clutching the closed book of gospels to his chest....
Our Lady of Rocamadour
Rocamadour, Lot, France
Carved into a limestone cliff above the Alzou Valley, Rocamadour has drawn pilgrims for nearly nine centuries to venerate a small, dark statue known as the Black Madonna....
Black Madonna of Langenzersdorf
Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Since 1708, this copy of the famous Einsiedeln Black Madonna has kept vigil in St....
Virgen of Chaguaya
Chaguaya, Tarija Department, Bolivia
In the high valleys of southern Bolivia, tens of thousands of pilgrims walk through the cold night each August to reach a small village where the Virgin Mary appeared in...
Basilica of Notre-Dame du Port
Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Built from the dark volcanic stone of Auvergne, Notre-Dame du Port stands among the finest Romanesque churches in France—one of ten major examples within thirty kilometers....
Black Madonna of Loretto Burgenland
Loretto, Burgenland, Austria
In the Austrian village that took its name from Loreto, a 1644 replica of the famous Black Madonna has outlasted the Italian original....
Black Madonna of Vichy
Vichy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
In November 1793, Revolutionary authorities in Vichy condemned a medieval Black Virgin—tried her like a traitor, sentenced her, beheaded her, and set her burning....
Black Madonna of Breznice
Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Created in 1396 for King Wenceslas IV, the Madonna of Breznice is among Europe's most explicitly intentional Black Madonnas....
Black Madonna of Naples
Naples, Campania, Italy
In a basilica at the edge of Naples' ancient market square, an icon with a dark face gazes down from above the high altar....
Church of St Jean du Grund (Black Madonna of Grund)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nestled in the ancient Grund valley beneath Luxembourg's fortress walls, the Church of St Jean du Grund houses one of Europe's most evocative Black Madonnas....
Our Lady of Le Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Rising from a 132-meter volcanic spur, Notre-Dame de France dominates Le Puy-en-Velay's extraordinary skyline....
Black Virgin of the Recollects
Verviers, Liège, Belgium
In the Belgian city of Verviers, a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary holds a singular place in Black Madonna veneration....
Black Madonna of Maria Loretto Peninsula
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
On a peninsula reaching into Lake Woerthersee, this 17th-century chapel replicates the Holy House of Loreto in Italy....
Black Madonna of Lavanttal
Sankt Andrä, Carinthia, Austria
In the Carinthian town of St. Andra, within a baroque basilica modeled after Italy's Holy House of Loreto, a Black Madonna has drawn pilgrims for nearly four centuries....
Our Lady of Częstochowa
Częstochowa, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
The Black Madonna of Czestochowa rests in the fortress-monastery of Jasna Gora, her dark face bearing two sword slashes that have resisted all repair....
Martyrs' Shrine
Tay, Ontario, Canada
Martyrs' Shrine stands on a hill near Midland, Ontario, honoring eight Jesuit missionaries and companions killed between 1642 and 1649 during the encounter between French...
Diocesan Shrine of the Captive Lord of Ayabaca
Distrito de Ayabaca, Piura, Peru
In the mountains of northwestern Peru, near the border with Ecuador, stands a Christ with bound hands—the Captive Lord of Ayabaca....
Difunta Correa shrine, San Juan
Vallecito, San Juan, Argentina
In the desert east of San Juan, at a place called Vallecito, a shrine complex has grown from a single grave into a small city of offerings....
Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine
Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada
On Mohawk Territory beside the Saint Lawrence River, a small stone church holds the tomb of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Mohawk-Algonquin woman canonized in 2012 as the first...
Notre-Dame de Bon-Espoir
Dijon, Bourgogne – Franche-Comté, France
In a Gothic church praised by Viollet-le-Duc as a masterpiece of reason, one of France's oldest Marian statues holds court....
Chapel of Soyartze
Uhart-Mixe, France
Crowning a hill at about 286 metres above Uhart-Mixe, this small open chapel is a Marian sanctuary descended from a twelfth-century Premonstratensian foundation....
Our Lady the Black Virgin of Hal
Diegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
The Black Virgin of Hal is a small thirteenth-century walnut statue of the Virgin and Child kept on the high altar of the Brabantine Gothic basilica of Saint Martin in...
Notre-Dame de Confession (Our Lady of Confession)
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
In the crypt of Marseille's oldest sanctuary, a Black Madonna waits in the half-darkness....
Black Madonna of Dublin
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
In Dublin's Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, a life-sized oak Madonna stands near the high altar, her original gold and blue paint stripped away by centuries....
Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
Champion, Champion, Wisconsin, United States
In a quiet corner of Wisconsin's Northwoods, Belgian immigrant Adele Brise reported three apparitions of Mary in October 1859....
Madonna di Loreto
Loreto, Ancona, Italy
Within the Holy House of Loreto stands a statue of the Madonna carved from Lebanese cedar, her face and hands dark....
Our Lady of Chipiona
Chipiona, Andalusia, Spain
Where the Guadalquivir River meets the Atlantic, a dark-skinned Virgin has watched over sailors, prisoners, and pilgrims for seven centuries....
Santa Casa di Loreto
Loreto, Ancona, Italy
At the center of Loreto's basilica, enclosed within Bramante's marble screen, stand three rough stone walls....
Our Lady of Loreto
Pesaro, Marche, Italy
Loreto preserves what Catholic tradition holds to be the actual house of the Holy Family from Nazareth — the room where the Annunciation took place and where Jesus spent...
Shrine of La Virgen del Puente
Sahagún, Sahagún, León, Castile and León, Spain
A small Mudéjar brick hermitage beside a medieval bridge over the Valderaduey, marking the first Marian waypoint pilgrims meet on the Camino Francés as they cross from...
Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Eureka, MO)
Eureka, Missouri, United States
Hidden on a wooded hillside in the Missouri Ozarks, the Black Madonna Shrine is the life's work of Brother Bronislaus Luszcz, a Polish Franciscan who spent 23 years...
Our Lady of Atocha
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Steps from one of Europe's busiest train stations, the Real Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Atocha shelters Madrid's oldest Marian image, a 13th-century wooden figure to...
Our Lady of Altötting
Altötting, Bavaria, Germany
Altötting's tiny octagonal Chapel of Grace houses one of Europe's most venerated Black Madonnas — a small dark lindenwood statue carved in the early fourteenth century....
Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Above the only surviving gate of Vilnius's medieval walls, a seventeenth-century icon of the Virgin Mary draws Catholic, Orthodox, and Greek Catholic faithful into a...
Black Madonna of Daurade
Toulouse, Occitania, France
Notre-Dame la Noire—Our Lady the Black One—has protected mothers in childbirth since at least the tenth century....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Kibeho
Kibeho, Kibeho, Nyaruguru District, Southern Province, Rwanda
Between 1981 and 1989, three Rwandan schoolgirls at Kibeho College reported apparitions of Mary identifying herself as Nyina wa Jambo, Mother of the Word....
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laghet
La Trinité, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
High in the hills between Nice and Monaco, the Sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Laghet has drawn pilgrims since 1652, when spontaneous healings began occurring at a humble...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of the End of the Bridge – Refuge of the Mother and Child of Pau
France
In Pau, this neo-Gothic church gathers a Béarnais Marian devotion documented since the sixteenth century — Our Lady at the end of the bridge, invoked for safe crossing and...
Shrine of the Virgen de Gracia
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
Tucked in the Herrería forest above San Lorenzo de El Escorial, this small hermitage holds the town's patroness — a Marian image local tradition says was discovered by...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain
The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe in the Sierra de las Villuercas is a UNESCO World Heritage site (1993, ref 665) and one of Spain's most consequential...
Notre-Dame de Sous-Terre (Our Lady Under the Earth)
Chartres, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Beneath the soaring Gothic nave of Chartres Cathedral lies its oldest and most mysterious space: the crypt where Notre-Dame de Sous-Terre—Our Lady Under the Earth—has been...
Notre-Dame de Fourvière
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Crowning the hill that was the cradle of Roman Lyon, Notre-Dame de Fourvière is the Marian heart of the city — built by public subscription in thanksgiving for deliverance...
Black Madonna of Pontoise
Pontoise, Metropolitan France, France
The Miraculous Virgin of Pontoise stands over two meters tall, fine and slender, carved in the thirteenth century....
Church of the Black Madonna
Letnicë, Gjilan District, Kosovo
High in Kosovo's Karadak hills, the Roman Catholic sanctuary of Letnica holds the Black Madonna, a darkened wooden Virgin believed to work miracles....
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