November 14, 2023

Nov 15th - Our Lady of Pignerol or Pigneralo - No Greater Delight

5 minutes

Celebrations

In Savoy, France, Our Lady of Pignerol or Pigneralo (Notre-Dame de Piedmont): the shrine was built in 1098 in honor of Our Lady’s Assumption, many years before the actual proclamation of the dogma.[1]

The morning of November 15th, 1800, on Nabeul Beach in Tunis: the finding of the wooden statue by Nicola Moretto, a slave, that would be venerated as Our Lady of the Slave (Madonna dello Schiavo) Carloforte, Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardegna, Italy. Having been captured by pirates and taken to Tunis, Moretto took this as a sign that he had not been abandoned by Our Lady.

In 1215, Rome, four days after the opening of the Fourth Lateran Council, Innocent III consecrates the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.[2]

In the 1600’s, the finding of the statue of Nossa Senhora do Rocio, Paranaguá, Paraná, Brazil: in 1970 Nossa Senhora do Rocio was declared the patronress of the state of Paraná. The image was caught in the nets of a fisherman who was having trouble catching anything. Saying a prayer, he cast his net, and hauled in the statue. From that moment on, the fishing went well.[3]

[1] Orsini – Barthe – Hahn, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 554.

[2] https://www.romasette.it/anche-san-francesco-alla-consacrazione-di-santa-maria-in-trastevere/#:~:text=Anche%20san%20Francesco%20alla%20consacrazione%20di%20Santa%20Maria%20in%20Trastevere%3F,-Se%20ne%20%C3%A8&text=Il%2015%20novembre%20del%201215,dal%20suo%20predecessore%20Innocenzo%20II.

[3] https://www.wherewewalked.info/feasts/11-November/11-15.htm

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