(Like theAll Souls Event at Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemeterywhich features “music, warming fires and fragrant teas comfort[ing] the living, public shrines remember[ing] the dead”, and a Celebration Hall where you can “find space and materials to craft your own personal memorials”. ...
That the origin and growth of the “Chansons de geste”, i.e., of early epic literature, are closely bound up with the famous pilgrim shrines, whither the piety of the people resorted, has been recently proved by the literary efforts of M. Bédier. And military courage and physical ...
The principal shrines of the diocese are: Notre Dame de Folgoet, near Lesneven, a pilgrimage dating from 1419; Notre Dame de Locmaria at Quimper, a church which dates from the eleventh century, when the Abbey of Locmaria was founded by Count Alain Canihart (1013-40); Notre Dame de Rum...
When Mary told Joseph that her time was drawing near and that he should now betake himself to prayer, he left her and turned toward his sleep-place to do her bidding. Before entering his little recess, he looked back once toward that part of the cave where Mary knelt upon her couch in...
the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages did not participate in or emphasize the quest for the Holy Grail. While the medieval Church is often criticized for taking advantage of miracles and shrines for pilgrimage, she did not use this seemingly perfect opportunity for donations and bequests to ven...
passage to travel and stay unhindered, anywhere, in Muslim occupied territories; and as a direct result of this act, eight hundred years later, if you go to Jerusalem you will see that the Franciscans are still the Catholic Religious Order responsible for the maintenance of the holy shrines....
"Ah," said Leo XIII. when he received it, "you could not have given me anything I liked better." And raising the statue, he kissed it. 1 Letter to the Bishop of Liege, February 11, 1899. (Lourdes: A History Of Its Apparitions And Cures[pps 66-67] by Georges Bertrin. 1908. The...
am unclear on the idea of a patron saint or a saint representing a specific need. It appears to be superstitious, but based on what I have discovered in my limited explorations of Catholicism, I know that this cannot be the case. Why travel to see the relics of saints or their shrines...
“I am surprised that so many major shrines and churches have selected his style to portray the truths of the Church. There are many highly skilled sacred artists working today that could have been selected to edify their visitors and pilgrims. Examples of well-known contemporary religious artists...
The greatness of John, his pivotal place in the history of salvation, is seen in the great emphasis Luke gives to the announcement of his birth and the event itself—both made prominently parallel to the same occurrences in the life of Jesus. John attracted countless people (“all Judea”)...