Our Lady of Consolation

{{Short description|Catholic title of the Virgin Mary}} {{Other uses}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2017}} [[File: Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Madonna della cintura con i Santi Monica e Agostino 03.jpg|thumb|Our Lady of Consolation flanked by Ss. [[Saint Augustine|Augustine]] and [[Saint Monica|Monica]] by [[Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri]] in he Augustinian church in [[Fossombrone]]]]

'''Our Lady of Consolation''' or '''Comforter of the Afflicted''' ([[Latin]]: {{Lang|la|Nostra Domina de Consolatricis Afflictorum}})<ref name=Conventual>{{cite web |url=http://franciscansusa.org/our-lady-of-consolation |title=Our Lady of Consolation – Conventual Franciscan Friars, Province of Our Lady of Consolation |website=franciscansusa.org}}</ref> is a [[Roman Catholic]] [[Titles of Mary|title]] of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] venerated in the [[Catholic Church]].

==History== {{Catholic Mariology sidebar}}

The origin of this invocation is derived from the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] friars who propagated this particular devotion. Along with Saints Augustine, and Monica, Our Lady of Consolation is one of the three patrons of the Augustinian orders. The title {{Lang|la|Consolatrix Afflictorum}} (English: Comforter of the Afflicted) is part of the [[Litany of Loreto]], and is Augustinian in origin.<ref>[https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/o/our-lady-of-consolation.php "Our Lady of Consolation", Marian Library, University of Dayton]</ref> This devotion was propagated by the Augustinian monks. By the early 18th century the custom of asking for the final blessing before death in the name of Our Lady of Consolation was very popular.<ref name=mhs>{{Cite web |url=http://mhs.eu.pn/md/MD26.html |title="The Augustinian Friars and Devotion to Our Lady in the Maltese Islands", Malta Historical Society |access-date=2014-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131202048/http://mhs.eu.pn/md/MD26.html |archive-date=2016-01-31 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In congregations of the Augustinian Order, the "Augustinian Rosary" is sometimes called the "Crown of Our Mother of Consolation". The traditional depiction in Augustinian houses show Mary holding the [[Child Jesus]] on her lap. They both hold the Augustinian [[cincture]] in their hands.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://midwestaugustinians.org/our-mother-of-consolation |title=Our Mother of Consolation |website=Midwest Augustinians}}</ref>

==Archconfraternity== {{Main|Confraternities of the Cord#Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Consolation}}

The oldest and most celebrated of these [[Confraternities of the Cord]] is probably the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Consolation, also called the Archconfraternity of the Cincture of Saint Monica, Saint Augustine and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.<ref name=Hilgers>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14120a.htm Hilgers, Joseph. "Sodality." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 17 Aug. 2014]</ref> In 1439, the Augustinian Order obtained the faculty to set up the Confraternity of the Cincture for lay people.<ref name=recollects>[https://www.agustinosrecoletos.com/events/our-lady-mother-of-consolation-patroness-of-the-order/?lang=en Augustinian Recollects]</ref> Later on, it was adopted by the [[Hermits of Saint Augustine]] as a distinctive part of their [[religious habit|habit]].<ref name=Heckmann>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04357a.htm Heckmann, Ferdinand. "Confraternities of the Cord." ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 17 Aug. 2014]</ref>

The confraternity of Our Lady of Consolation was founded in 1495 in [[Bologna]], Italy. In 1575 both confraternities merged in a single Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Consolation and Cincture.<ref name=recollects/> Other similar confraternities were aggregated to the Archconfraternity in Bologna.<ref>[https://santoninodecebubasilica.org/organizations/cofradia-dela-consolacion/ "Cofradia de Neustra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa"]</ref>

The annual feast of the Archconfraternity is 4 September.<ref>[https://www.osa.org.au/ministry-updates-and-events/mary-mother-of-consolation/ "Mary – Mother of Consolation", Augustinians of the Province of Australasia]</ref> Members are obliged to wear a black leather belt, to fast on the vigil of the feast of Saint Augustine and to recite daily the "Little Rosary of Our Lady of Consolation" which is composed of thirteen couplets of beads. The essential prayers to be said are Our Father and Hail Mary repeated thirteen times after which is recited the Hail Holy Queen.<ref>[https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/c/chaplets-various-kinds.php Roten, S.M., Johann. "Chaplets: The Little Rosary of Our Lady of Consolation", Marian Library, University of Dayton]</ref>

For the erection of and reception into this archconfraternity, special faculties must be had from the prior general. The headquarters of the society is the Church of [[Sant'Agostino, Rome]] where the body of Saint Monica lies.<ref name=Hilgers/>

==Cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary== [[File: Francisco Santa Cruz 42.jpg|thumb|Our Lady of Consolation enshrined within the [[Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)|Church of Saint Francis]], [[Tenerife]], Spain]] The feast of Our Lady of Consolation is observed in several [[Catholic countries]] within orders or religious institutes.

* The [[Order of Saint Augustine]] observe it on September 4.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.osa.org.au/en/ministries/additional-information/mary-mother-of-consolation/ |title=OSA : Mary – Mother of Consolation |website=www.osa.org.au}}</ref> * The [[Order of Friars Minor Conventual]] observe it on May 25<ref name=Conventual/> * The [[Order of Saint Benedict]] on July 5.

In Malta, the feast is celebrated on the last Sunday of October with pyrotechnic displays by Our Lady of Consolation Fireworks Factory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visitmalta.com/en/event-details/2016-09/feast-of-our-lady-of-consolation-6348 |title=FEAST OF OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION – Visitmalta – The official tourism website for Malta, Gozo and Comino. |website=www.visitmalta.com}}</ref> The Feast Day in Rome for Our Lady of Consolation is January 31; in the United States it is the Saturday after the Feast of Saint Augustine (August 28).

==Argentina== [[Pope Benedict XVI]] granted a decree of canonical coronation for the venerated 17th—century image of ''Our Lady of Consolation in [[Sumampa]]'', Argentina, on 21 November 2009.

[[Pope Francis]] issued a decree to raise the shrine in Sampacho to the status of a [[minor basilica]] on 12 March 2024 for the [[Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto]]. The inauguration rites took place on 10 June 2024 and was presided by the Archbishop of Cordoba, Cardinal [[Ángel Sixto Rossi]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cucha.com.ar/el-santuario-de-la-consolata-de-sampacho-sera-declarado-basilica/|title=El Santuario de la Consolata de Sampacho será declarado Basílica|date=13 May 2024|website=cuchá|language=es}}</ref>

==Belgium== [[File:Leuven Kapel Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Koorts 8-03-2024 12-51-56.jpg|thumb|The venerated [[Pieta]] image of [[Leuven]], Belgium]]

[[Pope Pius X]] granted a decree of pontifical coronation on 16 June 1907 towards a [[Pietà]] image dating from 1535 in the Franciscan church of [[Leuven]]. The rite of coronation was executed by the former [[Archbishop of Mechelen]], Cardinal [[Désiré-Joseph Mercier]]. The image, also known as "Our Lady of Koorts" or "Our Lady of Fever" due to its longstanding claim to heal the sick, was renamed ''Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted'' by popular demand.<ref>[https://www.belgiansculptures.be/product/onze-lieve-vrouw-ter-koorts/ belgiansculptures.be]</ref>

[[Pope Benedict XVI]] issued a Pontifical decree which raised the shrine of [[Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost]] in [[Vilvoorde]] to the status of Minor Basilica on 1 March 2006.

==England== [[File:Our Lady of Consolation Grinstead Great Britain.jpg|thumb|The canonically crowned image at the [[Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation]] in [[West Grinstead]], England]]

The [[Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation]] in [[West Grinstead]], in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton|Diocese of Arundel and Brighton]] dates from 1876 and is the first shrine in honour of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] to be established in England since before the [[Protestant Reformation]].

[[Pope Leo XIII]] granted this venerated image a decree of pontifical coronation, executed by the former Bishop of Southwark, [[John Butt (bishop)|John Baptiste Butt]] on 12 July 1893.<ref name=grinstead>{{cite web |url=http://www.consolation.org.uk/n_welcome.php |title=Our Lady of Consolation of West Grinstead – Introduction |website=www.consolation.org.uk}}</ref>

==France== [[File:Verdelais - Statue de Notre-Dame 2.jpg|thumb|Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted in Verdelais]]

[[Stanbrook Abbey]] was founded in 1623 at [[Cambrai, France]] as the monastery of "Our Lady of Consolation", for English Catholic expatriates.

* [[Pope Innocent X]] encouraged the devotion to Our Lady, Comforter of the Afflicted by establishing a French [[confraternity]] in 1652. * [[Pope Pius IX]] granted a [[canonical coronation]] to an image in [[Verdelais]] on 2 July 1856. * [[Pope Pius X]] granted a decree of coronation to another image venerated in [[Hyeres]] on 21 June 1909. * [[Pope Pius XI]] raised the shrine in Verdelais to the status of Minor basilica via the Pontifical decree ''Exstat in Civitate'' on 1 February 1924.

The dioceses of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes|Vannes]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Valence|Valence]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montpellier|Montpelier]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Laval|Laval]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes|Nantes]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Périgueux|Périgueux]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours|Tours]] and many others, dedicated churches or chapels to Our Lady of Consolation.<ref name=grinstead/>

The French painter and artisan, [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]] painted the image ''Mater Afflictorum'' in 1875, featuring the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] along with a lacrimating woman and deceased male child. It is housed in [[Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg]], in [[Alsace, France]].

==Germany== [[File:Genadekapel met Genadebeeld Kevelaer 24-04-2019 11-44-21.jpg|thumb|Our Lady of Kevelaer wearing her marked golden Pontifical crown from 1 June 1892]]

''Our Lady, the Consoler of the Afflicted'' is venerated in the Marian Basilica of [[Kevelaer]]. In 1642 a copperplate engraving, representing Our Lady of Luxembourg, was installed in a sanctuary erected the same year. It is one of the best visited Catholic pilgrimage locations in north-western Europe.

* [[Pope Benedict XIV]] — granted its pilgrims abundant [[indulgences]] on 24 August 1740. * [[Pope Gregory XVI]] — extended more titles to the image on 14 June 1840. * [[Pope Leo XIII]] — granted a decree of pontifical coronation on 20 July 1890 and was crowned on 1 June 1892. * [[Pope Pius XI]] — issued a Pontifical decree ''In Civitate Appellata'' which raised her sanctuary to the status of [[Basilica]] on 23 April 1923, the decree was signed by [[Vatican Secretary of State]], Cardinal [[Pietro Gasparri]]. * [[Pope John Paul II]] — visited the shrine on 2 May 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kevelaer.de/en/content/wallfahrt/%26nid1%3D15854 |title=City of Kevelaer – Wallfahrt |website=www.kevelaer.de |access-date=August 6, 2017 |archive-date=September 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905065302/https://www.kevelaer.de/en/content/wallfahrt/%26nid1%3D15854 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Iran== The [[Cathedral of the Consolata, Tehran]] is a Latin rite church which is devoted to Our Lady of Consolation.

==Italy==

===Bedonia=== [[Pope John Paul II]] issued a Pontifical decree titled ''Progredientibus iam Plurium'' on 1 September 1978 which raised the sanctuary to the status of a [[Minor Basilica]] in [[Bedonia]], [[Parma]].

===Casalbuono=== [[File:Madonna Consolazione Nereto Teramo.jpg|thumb|The image enshrined in [[Nereto]], [[Teramo]], Italy]]

The devotion to Our Lady of Consolation in [[Casalbuono]] began when her image was introduced to the laity during the 19th century. Her shrine sits on top of Mount Difesa, which was built around the 18th century, to replace the older structure that was destroyed. It has since attracted pilgrims and become customary that the image be translated from the town parish church to her sanctuary during its feast days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.secretvillage.it/segreti/santuario-madonna-della-consolazione|title=Santuario Madonna della Consolazione - Casalbuono (SA)|website=SecretVillage|language=it|access-date=11 June 2025}}</ref>

[[Pope Benedict XVI]] decreed the [[canonical coronation]] of the image on 28 August 2010 through the [[Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments]]. The rite of coronation was executed by the former [[Archbishop of Palermo]], Cardinal [[Salvatore De Giorgi|Salvatore de Giorgi]] on 11 September 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.golfonetwork.it/comunicati20082011/news_commenti.asp?NewsID=3082|title=Golfonetwork - News flash - commenti|date=8 September 2010|language=it}}</ref>

===Nereto=== The image of Our Lady in Nereto recalls the invasion of the former [[Emperor of France]], Lord [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] on 22 December 1798. Several soldiers of the [[Napoleonic Army]] raped and pillaged women in Nereto, and the townspeople retaliated against the army via murder. The army proceeded to charge into the town church of Nereto where a woman, Nicolina Tonelli had rung the bell and purported to release angels from the bell tower of the church which fended off the soldiers and purportedly dislodged their bullets. This claim of miraculous event is now commemorated annually on December 22 and is also memorialized in the same bell. The local townspeople later crowned the image by popular demand and further credited her for the miraculous repulsion of the Napoleonic Army.

===Reggio Calabria=== [[File:Reggio calabria processione festa madonna 2.jpg|thumb|[[Procession]] with the statue of 1547 in [[Reggio Calabria]], Italy]]

The devotion started when the [[Bishop of Cavaillon]], Girolamo Cancelli invited twelve friars of the Order of Capuchins to the site donated by the Italian nobleman Giovanni Bernardo Mileto where an existing smaller statue was already enshrined. They finished a cloister in 1569 using the new rules of the Franciscan Order.

The Italian nobleman Lord Camillo Diano tasked the artisan Nicolò Andrea Capriolo in 1547 to make a larger image under this title. The canvas depicts Mary seated on a throne holding the [[Child Jesus]] and flanked by [[Saint Francis of Assisi]] holding a cross and a Bible and [[Saint Anthony of Padua]] holding a [[Lily flower]] and Christian book while a pair of Angels crown the head of Our Lady.

According to pious legend, this large painting mysteriously disappeared from its original place in [[Reggio Calabria Cathedral]], only to be re-discovered by a young shepherd on the nearby hill of Eremo. The painting was brought back to the cathedral, only to be found again on the same hill. The faithful took this as a supernatural sign from the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] and built a church on the exact site where the icon had appeared. The image remains today in what is known as the Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation in Eremo, Calabria. The first organized procession was recorded in 1636. The local townspeople decorated the image with silver crowns on their own accord on 10 November 1693 in thanksgiving for the earthquake relief in January 1693. These crowns are now located on the backside panel of the framed image.

[[Pope Innocent XIII]] granted the image a [[canonical coronation]] on 15 September 1722 with ornate crowns offered by the Vatican Chapter, currently installed on the image.

The local government further decreed the Marian title as their city patroness on 26 August 1752. The church was originally dedicated to Saint [[Theodore the Martyr]] and [[Saint Catherine of Alexandria]] but the enshrinement of the image dedicated it to Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted by popular demand. The church was completely damaged due to earthquake in 1908 and was rebuilt in 1965. A new altar was made and modern bronze panels were crafted by Italian artist Alessandro Monteleone (1897–1967).

[[Pope Paul VI]] raised the shrine to the status of [[Minor Basilica]] via the decree ''Rhegium Urbs'' on 28 November 1971. The image was stolen from its shrine on 17 August 1982 but was returned a few days later due to great public outcry.

===Palatine Hill=== [[File:Santa Maria della Consolazione 2020 P02 Lady of the Consolation icon.jpg|thumb|The image venerated in [[Santa Maria della Consolazione]] in the [[Palatine Hill]]. [[Pope Urban VIII]] crowned this image on 7 December 1634.]]

Another image in [[Rome]] is enshrined since 23 June 1385, a condemned prisoner named Giordanello degli Alberini was in the Campidoglio waiting to be executed, entrusts his testamentary dispositions to the Roman notary Pietro Mancini. Among which he donates two gold florins to have an image of Our Lady painted to be placed in the place of executions in front of the gallows, next to Santa Maria delle Grazie under Mount Campidoglio. The painting was created and placed on the wall of some barns of the Mattei family in Vico Jugario. It represents the Virgin seated with the child standing on her knees in the act of [[benediction]] and supporting her globe. The image was restored and repainted by the Roman artisan [[Antoniazzo Romano]] several times in 1465.

On 7 June 1470, the purported miracle of the Virgin Mary took place. According to Giovanni Antonio Bruzio, on that road corresponding to the ancient vico iugario there were the granaries of the Mattei Roman patricians. In their portico there was an image of the Holy Virgin, to whom a pious mother recommended herself, whose innocent son had been imprisoned and sentenced to death for evildoings, the Virgin told him, consoling her, that her son would not die, but miraculously saved from the forces. After this the faithful often offered gifts to this image and it was entrusted to the confraternity of Santa Maria in Portico. Near those granaries there was also a small hospital, near which a church dedicated to Our Lady, the [[Santa Maria della Consolazione]] was later built.

[[Pope Sixtus V]] recognized the pious association under this Marian title on 3 June 1585 and issued a Pontifical decree titled ''Licet ex Debito'' which elevated their status to an [[Archconfraternity]].

[[Pope Urban VIII]] further approved the venerated image recognized by the Vatican Chapter, which was promoted by Count Alessandro Sforza and Pontifically crowned on 7 December 1634.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.info.roma.it/monumenti_dettaglio.asp?ID_schede=50 |title=Santa Maria della Consolazione}}</ref>

===Salerno=== Another image was honored a [[canonical coronation]] by [[Pope Pius X]] decreeing the coronation on 30 June 1906. The rite of coronation was executed by the former [[Archbishop of Salerno]], Valerio Laspro on 1 October 1906 for the image venerated in the Church of Our Lady of Consolation in [[San Valentino Torio]].

===Turin=== [[File:Icona della Consolata, Torino.jpg|thumb|The venerated image of ''Augustina Domina Taurinorum'' (English: Noble Mistress of Turin). The bottom inscription reads ''Sancta Maria de Populo de Urbe'' ([[Latin]]: Holy Mary of the City and its Peoples).]]

A church at the site stood adjacent to the ancient Roman walls of the city. Pious legends claim that Saint [[Eusebius of Vercelli]] brought back an icon of Our Lady of Consolation when he was returning from exile in [[Alexandria, Egypt]] in 363 A.D. This venerated icon was presented to the city of [[Turin]]. Later on Bishop [[Maximus of Turin]] established a small shrine to house the icon in a church dedicated to [[Saint Andrew the Apostle]].

[[Pope Pius X]] granted a decree of pontifical coronation for the image on 18 June 1904. Its golden aureole halo of twenty-four stars was donated by former [[Queen of Italy]], [[Margherita of Savoy]] while the rest of its regalia were donated from the princes of Savoy and noble ladies of Turin. The rite of coronation was granted to and executed by the former Prefect of the [[Sacred Congregation of the Index]], Cardinal [[Vincenzo Vannutelli]] in a public religious event. A grand total of six Cardinals attended the rite of coronation, including Cardinal [[Giulio Boschi]] (Ferrara), [[Giuseppe Callegari]] (Padua), [[Alfonso Capecelatro]] (Capua), [[Andrea Carlo Ferrari]] (Milan), and [[Domenico Svampa]] (Bologna).

[[Pope Pius X]] raised the shrine [[Santuario della Consolata]] to status of [[Minor Basilica]] on 7 April 1906. He later issued the decree ''Virginis a Consolatione Templum'' for this shrine which approved the Archconfraternity of the devotion on 25 July 1912.

A famed [[Catholic priest]], [[Joseph Marello]] (Age 19), contracted the [[Typhus]] disease. He attributed his recovery to Our Lady of Consolation and recovered. In 1878, he founded the [[Oblates of Saint Joseph]].<ref name=lic>[http://www.newspaper.licatholic.org/saints/saint-joseph-marello "Saint Joseph Marello" ''Long Island Catholic'', May 16, 2012]</ref>

In the 20th century, the rector of the Santuario della Consolata, [[Giuseppe Allamano]], founded the Congregation of Clerics of [[Consolata Missionaries]] in 1902. These Christian missionaries later brought the Marian devotion the peoples of Africa.

==Japan== The Augustinian church located in the Shiroyama district of [[Nagasaki, Japan]], is dedicated to Our Mother of Consolation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.pauline.or.jp/church/shiroyama.php |title=Daughters of St. Paul --Catholic Churches in Japan |website=english.pauline.or.jp}}</ref>

==Luxembourg== [[File:Consolatrix afflictorum Luxembourg.jpg|thumb|''La Consolatrix Afflictorum du Luxembourg'' in the [[Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg|Royal Cathedral of Luxembourg]] crowned by the decree of [[Pope Pius IX]] in 1866]]

The devotion to [[Our Lady of Luxembourg]], Comforter of the Afflicted, was initiated by the [[Jesuit Order]] on 8 December 1624 and led to the election of Our Lady as the protectress of the city on 27 September 1666 and of the duchy on 20 February 1678.

The image celebrates her feast on two calendar occasions, the 15 of September and on the [[Friday of Sorrows]].

After the destruction of the old pilgrimage chapel at the time of the [[French Revolution]], the statue of Our Lady of Luxembourg was moved to the high altar of the former Church of Saint Peter, today renamed as the [[Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg|Notre-Dame Cathedral]] in [[Luxembourg City]].<ref name=weyrich>{{cite web |url=http://www.institutgrandducal.lu/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=91 |title=INSTITUT GRAND-DUCAL DE LUXEMBOURG |website=www.institutgrandducal.lu}}</ref>

Statues depicting her can be found in niches in buildings throughout the city of Luxembourg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/susanna/our_lady_of_consolation.htm |title=Our Lady of Consolation |website=mavweb.mnsu.edu}}</ref> From there the devotion was adopted by the English [[Order of St Benedict|Benedictine]] nuns of [[Cambrai, France]]. It is solemnly celebrated during the Feast of ''[[Oktav]].''

[[Pope Pius IX]] granted a Pontifical decree of coronation towards this national image on 24 June 1866. The rite of coronation was executed by the former [[Archbishop of Munich]], Cardinal [[Karl-August von Reisach]] on 2 July 1866.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J35AAQAAMAAJ&dq=p%C3%A4pstlichen+Kr%C3%B6nung+gnadenbild&pg=PA221|title="Ons hémecht"|date=1915|language=de}}</ref> It was professionally restored in 2008 by the artisan Muriel Prieur. This devotion was later expanded in 1875 to [[Carey, Ohio]], United States where a basilica enshrines a statue.

[[Pope Francis]] presented a [[Golden Rose]] to the Marian statue on 26 September 2024, in conclusion of the meeting in the [[Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg|Notre Dame Cathedral of Luxembourg]] with the catholic community and national authorities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.romereports.com/en/2024/09/26/standing-ovation-for-the-pope-at-the-luxembourg-cathedral/|title=Standing ovation for the Pope at the Luxembourg Cathedral|date=26 September 2024|website=ROME REPORTS}}</ref>

==Malta== [[File:Nuestra Señora de la Consolación y Correa.JPG|thumb|The Virgin of Consolation (1760) by Jose Vergara Gimeno (1726–1799). Oil on canvas.]]

In the 1700s, members of the Augustinian Order introduced the devotion to Our Lady of Consolation to the island of [[Malta]]. On 1 December 1722, the Prior General of the Augustinian Order, Thomas Cervioni, issued the decree for the erection of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Consolation in the Church of Saint Mark, operated by the Augustinian Order at [[Rabat, Malta]].

By this time the pious custom of asking for the final benediction before death in the name of this Marian title became very popular, and the friars were given a dispensation to leave the monastery at any time to confer it. Eventually, Marian processions were suspended during the French occupation of 1798 to discourage the gathering of crowds.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mhs.eu.pn/md/MD26.html |title=Schembri, Henry. ''The Augustinian Friars and Devotion to Our Lady in the Maltese Islands'', p. 313, Malta Historical Society |access-date=August 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131202048/http://mhs.eu.pn/md/MD26.html |archive-date=January 31, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A venerated image is enshrined at the Church of Saint Augustine in [[Valletta, Malta]] which features the Marian apparition to [[Saint Monica]] receiving the Holy Cincture. The image was painted in 1786 by the Maltese artisan ''Hermenegildus Grech.''

==Philippines==

===Bulacan=== [[File:The Nuestra Señora dela Consolacion y Correa de Paombong.jpg|thumb|The image in [[Paombong, Bulacan]], Philippines]]

The town of [[Paombong]] was established as a Catholic parish in 1639, and the devotion was introduced and propagated by the Augustinian friars. In 1974, a confraternity of Our Lady of Consolation was established. In 1988, she was declared as the secondary patroness of Paombong.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pintakasi1521.blogspot.com/2019/12/nuestra-senora-de-la-consolacion-y.html?m=1 |title=Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa de Paombong}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/after-26-years-paombong-patroness-brought-our-for-veneration/ |last=Panganiban |first=Kendrick Ivan B. |website=CBCPNEWS |title=After 26 years, Paombong patroness brought out for veneration |date=2 January 2020}}</ref> On 5 December 2023, the city declared her as the "Mother and Comforting Queen of Paombong”<ref>[https://web.facebook.com/NSdeLaConsolacionYCorreaDePaombong/videos/1315610542444279 Sangguniang Bayan Session]</ref> and will be episcopally crowned on 6 September 2026.

===Manila=== [[File: Virgen de La Consolacion y Correa (2) 2025-09-14.jpg|thumb|The image of ''Our Lady of Consolation and Cincture'' in the [[San Agustin Church (Manila)|Church of Saint Augustine]], [[Intramuros]], Philippines]]

In 1607, the Confraternity of the ''Cofradia de la Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa'' was founded in [[Intramuros, Manila]] being one of the oldest Marian confraternities in the country. The image survived the [[Second World War]] being hidden for safekeeping.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pintakasi1521.blogspot.com/2019/09/nuestra-senora-de-la-consolacion-y.html |title=Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa de Intramuros}}</ref>

[[Pope John Paul II]] issued a pontifical decree of [[canonical coronation]] towards the image on 12 June 1999. The rite of coronation was executed by the former [[Archbishop of Manila]], Cardinal [[Jaime Lachica Sin]] on 4 September 2000. The [[San Agustin Church (Manila)|San Agustin Church]] was also designated as the ''Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation and Cincture''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2023/05/08/250439/intramuros-san-agustin-church-launches-our-lady-of-consolation-pilgrim-image/ |title=Intramuros' San Agustin Church launches Our Lady of Consolation pilgrim image |date=8 May 2023}}</ref>

On 13 February 2004, the original image of the [[Christ Child] attached to Our Lady was stolen, but was later replaced with a replica.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.philstar.com/news-commentary/2004/02/20/239643/san-agustin-church-loses-300-year-old-145nintildeo146-image/ |title=San Agustin Church loses 300-year-old 'Niño' image |last=Aravilla |first=Jose |website=Philstar.com |date=20 February 2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pangasinan|first=Kendrick Ivan B.|url=https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/intramuros-san-agustin-church-launches-our-lady-of-consolation-pilgrim-image/|title=Intramuros' San Agustin Church launches Our Lady of Consolation pilgrim image|website=CBCPNEWS|date=6 May 2023|access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref> On 15 August 2024, the [[Manila City Council]] passed an ordinance formally declaring the image as the patroness of [[Intramuros, Manila]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Calucin|first=Diann Ivy|url=https://mb.com.ph/2024/8/15/manila-city-council-proclaims-nuestra-senora-de-la-consolacion-y-correa-as-patroness-of-intramuros|website=[[Manila Bulletin]]|title=Manila City Council proclaims Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa as Patroness of Intramuros,Manila|date=15 August 2024|access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref> The image celebrated the 25th anniversary of its [[Canonical coronation|Pontifical coronation]] on 4 September 2025, held at Plaza Roma, Intramuros, Manila.

===Palawan=== The Marian devotion in [[Cuyo, Palawan]] began when the image is brought by the Augustinian Recollects in 1623. The image was episcopally crowned on 27 August 2022, coinciding with the fourth centenary of Christianity in the island of Palawan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://palawan-news.com/our-lady-of-cuyo/ |title=Our Lady of Cuyo |last=Elivera |first=Rev. Fr. Eugene |date=27 August 2022 |website=PALAWAN NEWS}}</ref>

==Poland== {{See also|Painting of Our Lady of Consolation in Przeworsk}} Several images of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] under the title of ''Our Lady of Consolation'' have been honored by several popes and are venerated throughout [[Poland]].

* [[Pope Benedict XIV]] — honored the miraculous icon in the Monastery of the Bernardine Fathers in [[Leżajsk]] with a pontifical decree of coronation. It was [[canonical coronation|canonically crowned]] on 8 September 1752. * [[Pope John XXIII]] — granted a decree of coronation for [[Nowy Sącz]] on 10 August 1963. * [[Pope Paul VI]] - issued a Pontifical decree ''Propugnaculum Fidei Artisque'' which raised the shrine of [[Abbey Church, Czerwińsk nad Wisłą]] to the status of Minor Basilica on 10 July 1967, acknowledging the image enshrined within. The image was granted a Pontifical decree of coronation titled ''Didicimus in Templum'' on 2 February 1969, signed and notarized by the former [[Dean of the College of Cardinals]], [[Luigi Traglia]]. The rite of coronation was executed on 6 September 1970.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://czerwinsk.salezjanie.pl/bulla-pawel-VI-koronacja-obraz-mb|title=Bulla Papieża zezwalająca na nałożenie koron na obraz Matki Bożej Pocieszenia|access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> The same Pontiff granted a decree of coronation for the images ** in [[Dąbrówka Kościelna, Greater Poland Voivodeship|Dąbrówka Kościelna]], canonically crowned on 15 June 1969. ** in [[Golina]], canonically crowned on 23 August 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sanktuarium-maryjne.pl/koronacja-obrazu |title=Koronacja obrazu – Sanktuarium Maryjne w Golinie|access-date=22 November 2022}}</ref> ** in [[Szamotuły]], canonically crowned on 20 September 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://szamotuly.naszemiasto.pl/rok-temu-minelo-50-lat-od-koronacji-cudownego-obrazu-matki/ar/c1-7894715 |title=Rok temu minęło 50 lat od koronacji cudownego obrazu Matki Bożej Szamotuł Pani |website=szamotuly.naszemiasto.pl |language=pl |date=5 September 2021}}</ref> ** in [[Jodłowa]], canonically crowned on 31 August 1975. ** in [[Biechowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship|Biechowo]], canonically crowned on 12 September 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.swzygmunt.knc.pl/CROWNedMARYs/HTMs/116CROWNedMARY_BIECHOWO01.htm|title=BIECHOWO - KORONOWANE WIZERUNKI MATKI BOŻEJ - św. Zygmunt|website=www.swzygmunt.knc.pl}}</ref> ** in the Parish of the Nativity of [[Stara Blotnica]], canonically crowned on 21 August 1977. * [[Pope John Paul II]] — granted a decree of coronation for the images ** in [[Orchówek, Lublin Voivodeship|Orchówek]] crowned by pontifical decree ''Sæpe Nos Memoria'' on 26 March 1987. The rite of coronation was executed on 2 September 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/la/apost_letters/1987/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19870326_saepe-nos.html |title=Saepe nos – Littera apostolica {{!}} Ioannes Paulus II|website=www.vatican.va|date=26 March 1987}}</ref> ** in [[Pasierbiec]] via the decree ''Notum est Christifideles'' on 6 August 1992. The rite of coronation canonically crowned on 28 August 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/la/apost_letters/1992/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19920804_notum-est.html |title=Notum est – Littera Apostolica {{!}} Ioannes Paulus II|website=www.vatican.va|date=4 August 1992}}</ref> ** In the Franciscan Church and monastery of [[Gniezno]], via the decree ''Mater Iesu in Historiam'' on 20 November 1990. The rite of coronation was executed on 3 June 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/la/apost_letters/1996/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19961120_mater-iesu.html |title=Mater Iesu – Littera apostolica {{!}} Ioannes Paulus II|website=www.vatican.va|date=20 November 1996}}</ref> **In the Church of the Annunciation of [[Miedzna]], icon via the decree ''Lucis Matrem Fecundam'' on 5 September 1996. The rite of coronation was executed on 22 June 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/la/apost_letters/1996/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19960905_lucis-matrem.html |title=Lucis Matrem – Littera apostolica {{!}} Ioannes Paulus II|website=www.vatican.va|date=5 September 1996}}</ref> **In the Church of the Holy Trinity in [[Lubiszewo Tczewskie]], via the decree ''Vivens est Maria'' on 6 March 1997. The rite of coronation was executed on 31 August 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/la/apost_letters/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19970306_vivens-est.html |title=Vivens est – Littera apostolica {{!}} Ioannes Paulus II|website=www.vatican.va|date=6 March 1997}}</ref> **In [[Domaniewice, Łódź Voivodeship|Domaniewice]], icon venerated as "Comforter of the Afflicted" was canonically crowned on 8 September 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bp.ecclesia.org.pl/domaniewice.html|title=PEREGRINUS &#124; artykuły&#124; sanktuaria w Polsce&#124; Domaniewice|website=www.bp.ecclesia.org.pl}}</ref> **In the Church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria of [[Kraków]], image canonically crowned on 9 December 2000 ([[Great Jubilee]] Year).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://parafia-kazimierz.augustianie.pl/nasi-patroni/najswietsza-maria-panna-matka-pocieszenia/ |title=4 września: Najświętszej Maryi Panny Matki Pocieszenia |language=pl}}</ref> **In the Church of Saint Stephen of [[Kraków]], canonically crowned on 12 September 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://misyjne.pl/przerwa-artykul/matka-ktora-zawsze-pocieszy-cudowny-obraz-w-krakowie/|title=Matka, która zawsze pocieszy. Cudowny obraz w Krakowie|newspaper=Misyjne.pl }}</ref> * [[Pope Benedict XVI]] granted a decree of coronation for the icon in [[Bęczkowice]] on 16 November 2006 through the [[Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments|Congregation for Divine Worship]]. It was canonically crowned on 8 September 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://piotrkowtrybunalski.naszemiasto.pl/koronacja-obrazu-matki-bozej-pocieszenia-w-beczkowicach/ar/c1-6729175|title=Koronacja obrazu Matki Bożej Pocieszenia w Bęczkowicach|language=pl}}</ref> * [[Pope Francis]] — raised the shrine to the status of [[Minor Basilica]] in [[Poznań]], on 13 May 2014.

He later granted a decree of coronation for the images ** in [[Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship]], Calvary chapel, which was canonically crowned on 28 May 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://radioglos.pl/wiadomosci/z-zycia-kosciola/3485-matka-boza-pocieszenia-z-wiela-otrzymala-papieskie-korony |title=Matka Boża Pocieszenia z Wiela otryzmała papieskie korony – Radio Głos|access-date=2022-02-27}}</ref> ** in [[Kombornia]], canonically crowned on 11 June 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://przemyska.pl/2017/06/11/papieskie-korony-dla-matki-bozej-z-miejsca-piastowego-i-komborni/ |title=Papieskie Korony dla Matki Bożej z Miejsca Piastowego i Komborni |website=Archidiecezja Przemyska |language=pl |date=11 June 2017}}</ref> ** in the coastal Basilica of [[Gdynia]], image canonically crowned on 12 June 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://gdansk.tvp.pl/57639623/w-drugim-dniu-swiat-bozego-narodzenia |title=W drugim dniu Świąt Bożego Narodzenia |website=gdansk.tvp.pl |language=pl|access-date=2022-03-05}}</ref>

==Spain== [[File: Consueloprocesion.jpg|thumb|Image in [[Utrera]], crowned by the Pontifical decree of [[Pope Paul VI]]]]

===Utrera, Seville=== [[File: Virgen de la Consolación, patrona de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.jpg|thumb|The Patronal image of the Virgin of Consolation (15th century) brought by the Spaniard [[Conquistador]] Alonso Fernández de Lugo in [[Santa Cruz de Tenerife]]]]

The venerated image of Our Lady of Consolation is a small carving of the seated virgin in the late Byzantine style, which dates back to the end of the 14th century, although its external appearance was later modified to adapt it to the tastes of the baroque prevailing in lower Andalusia.

[[Pope Paul VI]] signed the formal decree officially granting the [[canonical coronation]] of the statue on 7 July 1963. Within less than a year, the rite of coronation was executed on 1 May 1964 at the ''Plaza del Altozano''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.caminosdepasion.com/event-pro/aniversario-coronacion-virgen-de-consolacion/ |title=Aniversario Coronación Virgen de Consolación |website=Caminos de Pasion |date=1 May 2023}}</ref>

[[Pope John Paul II]] later issued a Pontifical decree ''Populum et Fideles Christianorum'' on 7 March 1989 declaring this Marian title as the official city patroness of [[Utrera]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://patronasmarianassevilla.blogspot.com/2014/01/utrera-nuestra-senora-de-consolacion.html |title=UTRERA. NUESTRA SEÑORA DE CONSOLACIÓN |language=es |date=3 January 2014}}</ref>

===Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real=== According to pious legend, the original Marian image was discovered in 1212, when the province of La Mancha was reconquered after the [[Catholic Church|Christian]] victory in [[Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa]] and a chapel was later built in her honor.

[[Pope Francis]] decreed the coronation of the image on 30 November 2016. The rite of coronation was executed on 1 June 2019 by the [[Diocese of Ciudad Real|Bishop of Ciudad Real]], Gerardo Melgar Viciosa.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lanzadigital.com/provincia/la-virgen-de-consolacion-de-valdepenas-sera-coronada-pontificialmente/?amp=1 |title=La Virgen de Consolación de Valdepeñas será coronada pontificalmente |website=Lanza Digital |language=es |date=21 February 2017}}</ref>

==United States== In 1848, Luxembourgish immigrants began to settle in the area around [[Dacada, Wisconsin]]. The eldest statue of Our Lady of Consolation in the United States was brought by a Luxembourg immigrant, Anna Margaret Deppiesse, in 1849 and later donated to Saint Nicholas Church.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.galenfrysinger.com/wisconsin_port_washington_st_nicholas.htm |title=St. Nicholas Church, Dacada, Wisconsin |website=Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger}}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War]], three parishioners of Saint Augustine's Parish in [[Leopold, Indiana]], fought for the North and were imprisoned at [[Andersonville Prison]]. Former Belgian nationals, Henry Devillez, Isidore Naviaux and Lambert Rogier, vowed that if they survived, one of them would make a pilgrimage to Luxembourg and obtain a copy of the statue of Our Lady of Consolation that stood in their ancestral church. Rogier went to Luxembourg in 1867 and upon his return in 1875 then enshrined it in Saint Augustine Church, where it now stands to the left of the main altar. In September 2013, the [[Archbishop of Indianapolis]], Cardinal [[Joseph William Tobin]] dedicated a larger outdoor garden shrine.<ref>[http://www.archindy.org/criterion/local/2013/09-20/leopold.html Cornwell, Patricia Happel. "Archbishop rededicates Marian shrine at St. Augustine Parish in Leopold", ''The Criterion'', September 20, 2013]</ref>

One of the two main celebrations held each year in the [[Tacony, Philadelphia|Tacony section of Philadelphia]] was Our Lady of Consolation's Feast Day Parade. (The other is Memorial Day.) Each July statues of the saints were paraded through the streets of the neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nephillyhistory.com/1cnephtest/tacony/tachist.htm |title=c |website=www.nephillyhistory.com}}</ref>

[[Pope Paul VI]] raised the shrine to the status of a [[Minor Basilica]] in [[Carey, Ohio]], via his Pontifical decree ''Quam Prope Assit'' on 21 October 1971. The decree was signed and notarized by the [[Dean of the College of Cardinals]] and Grand Chancellor of the Apostolic Briefs, Cardinal [[Luigi Traglia]]. Today, the [[Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation]] is administered by the [[Order of Saint Francis]].

==Venezuela== [[File:Virgen de Consolacion de Táriba.jpg|thumb|The Pontifically crowned image enshrined at the [[Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation, Táriba]], Venezuela]]

An image dating from the sixteenth century is also enshrined in [[Tariba]], Venezuela. The image is framed in solid gold with jewels donated by pious Marian devotees from the country.

[[Pope John XXIII]] raised the Marian shrine to the status of [[Minor Basilica]] via his [[Pontifical Decree]] ''Solacium ac Levationem'' on 20 October 1959. The same Pontiff later granted a pontifical decree of coronation titled ''Alacres Dei'' on 9 November 1959 towards the image enshrined at the [[Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation, Táriba]], Venezuela. The rite of coronation was executed on 12 March 1967 by the former [[Archbishop]] of [[Caracas]], Cardinal [[José Humberto Quintero Parra]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.virgendeconsolacion.com/documentos |title=Documentos|access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>

==In film== In the fictionalized film [[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]] (1998), Queen [[Mary I of England]] emotionally implores her cousin the Princess [[Elizabeth I]] the retention of the [[Catholic Church]] as the [[state religion]] after her death, mentioning the "''Consolations of the Blessed Virgin, (their) Holy Mother''" with a Marian statue of the image featured in the background.

==Gallery== <gallery> File:Orchówek, kościół św. Jana Jałmużnika, wnętrze (7).JPG|Image of Our Lady of Consolation above the High altar in Orchówek, Poland File:Matka Boża Miedzeńska.jpg|Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted in [[Miedzna]], Poland File:Matki Bożej Pocieszenia w Gdyni.jpg|The crowned icon venerated in [[Gdynia]], Poland File:Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) - Palais Rohan - Musée des Beaux-Arts - "La Vierge consolatrice" (William Bouguereau,1825-1905).jpg|''Mater Afflictorum'' (1875) by William Adolph Bouguereau (Alsace, France) file:Madonna-della-Consolazione-Arcavacata.jpg|Our Lady of Consolation of Arcavacata (Cosenzia, Italy) File:Nuestra Señora de la Consolación de Pozuelo de Alarcón.jpg|Image in Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain </gallery>

==See also== * [[Our Lady of Good Counsel]]

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