Virgin Mary

Grotto of Lourdes, Puerto Deseado

Santa Cruz, Argentina

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Katoghike Holy Mother of God Church

Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia

Katoghike Holy Mother of God Church is a documented church in Yerevan, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Basilica of the Virgin Mary, Mariazell

Mariazell, Styria, Austria

Set among the forested peaks of the Styrian Alps, the Basilica of the Virgin Mary in Mariazell has drawn pilgrims from across Central Europe for nearly nine hundred years....

Black Madonna of Kaltenleutgeben

Inside Parish Church of Saint James, 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....

Black Madonna of Langenzersdorf

Inside St. Katharina, Langenzersdorf

Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria

Since 1708, this copy of the famous Einsiedeln Black Madonna has kept vigil in St....

Black Madonna of Lavanttal

Inside Basilica Maria Loreto, St. Andra

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....

Black Madonna of Loretto Burgenland

Inside Basilica of Maria Loretto in 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 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 Virgin of the Recollects

Inside Church of Our Lady of the Recollects

Verviers, Liege, Belgium

In the Belgian city of Verviers, a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary holds a singular place in Black Madonna veneration....

Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel

Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

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Our Lady the Black Virgin of Hal

Inside Saint Martin Basilica, Halle

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...

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Stará Boleslav, Czech Republic

Stará Boleslav, Stará Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Stará Boleslav is a documented church in Stará Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic...

Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny, Czech Republic

Křtiny, Křtiny, South Moravian Region, Czechia

Pilgrimage Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny is a documented church in Křtiny, South Moravian Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Iglesia de La Tirana

Pozo Almonte, Tarapacá, Chile

In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, a village of eight hundred swells to a quarter million every July as pilgrims converge on the Santuario de La Tirana....

Altotting

Altötting, Bayern, Deutschland

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Marpingen, Germany

Marpingen, Saarland, Deutschland

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Church of the Virgin Mary, Daqadus, Egypt

Mit Ghamr City, Dakahlia, Egypt

In the Nile Delta village of Daqadus, a Coptic church marks where the Holy Family rested during their flight into Egypt....

Knock

Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District, Éire / Ireland

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Lady's Island

The Borough District of Wexford, Éire / Ireland

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Garabandal

Rionansa, Cantabria, Spain

In the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain, a village of stone houses holds an unusual place among Marian apparition sites....

Basilica of Notre-Dame du Port

Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, 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 Daurade

Inside Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Daurade

Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France

Notre-Dame la Noire—Our Lady the Black One—has protected mothers in childbirth since at least the tenth century....

Black Madonna of Guingamp

Inside Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Guingamp

Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, France

In the basilica at Guingamp sits a Black Madonna whose origins are wrapped in Crusader legend and whose original title—Notre-Dame du Halgouët, Our Lady from under the...

Black Madonna of Moulins

Inside Moulins Cathedral

Moulins, Allier, 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....

Black Madonna of Pontoise

Inside Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise

Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France

The Miraculous Virgin of Pontoise stands over two meters tall, fine and slender, carved in the thirteenth century....

Black Madonna of Vichy

Inside Notre-Dame des Malades

Vichy, Allier, 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....

Notre-Dame de Bon-Espoir

Inside Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon

Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France

In a Gothic church praised by Viollet-le-Duc as a masterpiece of reason, one of France's oldest Marian statues holds court....

Notre-Dame de Confession (Our Lady of Confession)

Inside Abbey of Saint-Victor

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

In the crypt of Marseille's oldest sanctuary, a Black Madonna waits in the half-darkness....

Notre-Dame de Sous-Terre (Our Lady Under the Earth)

Inside Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, 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...

Our Lady of Rocamadour

Inside The Sanctuary 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....

The Black Madonna of Le Puy

Inside Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy

Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France

In Le Puy's great cathedral, on the altar where pilgrims have knelt for fifteen centuries, sits a Black Madonna only two centuries old....

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laghet

La Trinité, Alpes-Maritimes, 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...

Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God

Batumi, Adjara, Georgia

Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God is a documented cathedral in Batumi, Adjara, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....

Norashen Holy Mother of God Church

Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Black Madonna of Dublin

Inside Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church

Dublin, County Dublin, 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....

Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy

Rome, Rome, Italy

On the site where legend says oil sprang from the earth foretelling the Messiah's birth, Santa Maria in Trastevere rises as possibly Rome's oldest church dedicated to the...

Basilica Parrocchiale di Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy

Rome, Rome, Italy

Santa Maria del Popolo rises where legend says Pope Paschal II exorcised the demons haunting Nero's grave....

Black Madonna of Naples

Inside Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Naples, Naples, 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....

Black Madonna of Oropa

Inside Santuario di N.S. di Oropa, Italy

Oropa, Biella, Italy

The dark wooden figure of Mary and the child Jesus stands in the Sacello inside Oropa's Ancient Basilica....

Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Tergu

Zelgu/Tergu, Sassari, Italy

In the Sardinian countryside south of Castelsardo, a church of wine-red trachyte and white limestone has stood for nearly a thousand years....

Madonna of Bonaria

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

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Madonna of Crea

Serralunga di Crea, Piedmont, Italy

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Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Siluva

Šiluva, Raseiniai, Lithuania

The Basilica of the Nativity holds the crowned miraculous painting of Our Lady of Šiluva — called 'Lithuania's greatest treasure.' Brought from Rome in 1457, lost during...

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Alksnenai

Stirnėnai, Vilkaviškis, Lithuania

In the Suvalkija countryside, the wooden Church of the Assumption in Alksnėnai shelters a miraculous crowned statue of the Virgin Mary and a collection of 18th-century...

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Pivasiunai

Pivašiūnai, Alytus District Municipality, Lithuania

Perched on a hill surrounded by ancient pines and birches, the Church of the Assumption in Pivašiūnai shelters a miraculous 17th-century painting crowned with papal crowns...

Church of the Virgin Mary Victorious, Kazokiskes

Kazokiškės, Elektrėnai, Lithuania

In the quiet Lithuanian countryside southeast of Vilnius, a late Baroque church holds a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary Victorious that has drawn pilgrims since the...

Church of Žemaičių Kalvarija, Lithuania

Žemaičių Kalvarija, Telšių apskritis, Lietuva

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Gates of Dawn, Vilniaus

Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

Of the nine gates that once guarded Vilnius, only one survives. The Gates of Dawn stands because the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Mercy in its chapel above made...

Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn

Inside Gates of Dawn, Vilniaus

Vilnius, Vilnius, 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...

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....

The parish church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt

Hallstatt, Upper Austria, Austria

High above Lake Hallstatt, the parish church of Maria am Berg sits between mountain and water in one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements. Beside it, St....

Ayacucho Cathedral

Ayacucho, Ayacucho, Peru

Built from pink and gray stone over four decades (1632-1672), the Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria rises from Ayacucho's Plaza de Armas like a prayer made permanent....

Our Lady of Częstochowa

Inside Jasna Góra Monastery

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....

Czestochowa

Częstochowa, województwo śląskie, Polska

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Coimbra Old Cathedral

Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

The Sé Velha is the only Portuguese Romanesque cathedral from the Reconquista era to survive largely intact....

Fatima

Fátima, Santarém, Portugal

On a hillside in central Portugal, three shepherd children encountered something that would draw millions....

Our Lady of Nazaré

Nazaré, Leiria District, Portugal

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Csiksomlyo Monastery, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania

Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita, România

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Csíksomlyó, Romania

Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita, România

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Maria Radna Monastery and Church, Romania

Lipova, Arad, Romania

Maria Radna Basilica rises from a hilltop above the Mures River in western Romania, a monumental baroque church that serves as one of the most important Catholic...