PLACES UNDER OUR LADY'S SPECIAL PATRONAGE

 

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Maria Laach Abbey, Oil on Canvas 

Our Lady is the patron of many places, for instance: Aachen, Aire, Alet, Amiens, Antwerp, Anvers, the Patriarchate of Aquileia, Arras, Ascoli, Ethiopia, Auch, the Diocese of Augsburg, the city of Baden, the Diocese of Bamberg, the city of Basel, Batenburg, Bavaria, the County of Berg (near Zutphen), Bingen, Blois, Bologna, Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, the Principality of Bozzolo, the Duchy of Brunswick, the Lordship of Brederode, Bremen, Bruchsal, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Archdiocese and city of Cambrai, Casale, the Principality of Castiglione, the Diocese of Chalon-sur-Marne, Chartres, the Diocese of Chur, Civitavecchia, the Diocese of Clermont, the Duchy of Cleves, Cologne, Constance, the County of Correggio, Corsica, Corvey Abbey, Danzig, Dax, Dendermonde, the Teutonic Order, Die, Dinant, the Diocese of Eichstätt, Einbeck, Einsiedeln Abbey, England, the Abbey of Essen, Fano, Fermo, Ferrara, Florence, Foligno, France, Freiburg im Breisgau. Freising, Fréjus, St. Gallen, County of Gazoldo, Gemünd, Republic of Genoa, Gernsbach, Glogau, Göttingen, Goslar, Grenoble, Duchy and City of Guastalla, Halle, Hamburg, Hameln, Hanover, County of Hatzfeld, Havelberg, County of Herrenberg, Abbey of Herford, Hildesheim, County of Hohenstein, Höxter, Huy, Jägerndorf, Lordship of Jever, Duchy of Jülich, Kaiserslautern, Papal States, Laon, Diocese of Lausanne, Lille, Lippe, Livonia, Lübeck, Diocese of Liège, Macerata, Milan, Mainz, Mantua, Marseille, Diocese of Meaux, Duchy of Mecklenburg, Duchy of Modena, County of Montfort, Montalto, Mühlhausen in Thuringia, Munich, Nancy, Naumburg, Kingdom of Naples, Klosterneuburg, Neuchâtel, Northeim, Nîmes, Nijmegen, County of Novellara, Archdiocese of Olomouc, County of Oldenburg, Archduchy of Austria, Principality of Orange, Diocese of Paderborn, Palermo, Paris, Duchy of Parma, Pergola, Perugia, Pesaro, Principality of the Palatinate, Pisa, Principality of Piombino, Duchy of Pomerania, Portugal, Prenzlau, Prussia, Diocese of Le Puy, Ravenna, Ravensburg, City of Recanati, Lordship of Reckheim, Duchy of Reggio, Reutlingen, Reval (Tallinn), Diocese and City of Reims, Riga, County of Ronciglione, Rostock, Rottenburg, Ruppin, Duchy of Sabbioneta, Archdiocese of Salzburg, Sardinia, the Duchy of Savoy, the city of Savona, Switzerland, San Severino, Sicily, Siena, the Grand Principality of Transylvania, the Bishopric of Speyer, the Duchy of Spoleto, Stettin, Strasbourg (in Alsace), Terni, Thorn, Toledo, Tongeren, Toulon, the Bishopric of Trier, the County of Trivulzio, Ulm, Hungary, the Duchy of Urbino, Venice, the Bishopric of Verdun, Vicenza, Viterbo, Werden, Wetzlar, Wimpfen, the Bishopric of Worms, Wrietzen, Würzburg; she is also associated with Beuron, Emmaus in Prague, Maria Laach, Montserrat, etc. 

Our Lady, under various titles, is invoked for protection against lightning, thunderstorms, and distress; and she is patroness of furriers, gingerbread bakers, needle makers, boatmen, stocking knitters, and cloth shearers - though the basis for these associations is not always sufficiently clear. She is also patroness of Christendom, the Holy Church, the Cistercians, the Benedictines, the Carmelites, the Assumptionists, the Servites, the Dominicans, etc.; and of the craft guilds, by virtue of being the spouse of Saint Joseph, who was himself a craftsman. 

Source: Franz von Sales Doyé, Saints and Blesseds of the Roman Catholic Church: Their Identifying Attributes, Patronages, and Biographical Notes, Volume 1, Vier Quellen Verlag, Leipzig, 1929

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➡️ Church art featuring the Blessed Virgin Mary

➡️ Marian feasts - detailed list (pre Vatican II)

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