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Day 33: Our Lady of the Snow
By Sean | March 9, 2008
Huge storm last night. Snowblower broken. Shoveling and praying all afternoon. Too tired to blog.
Enjoy this picture of Our Lady of the Snows Church in Owl River Alberta.
From Flickr: terrydonovan88. cc-attribution-non-commercial, share alike.
This website gives a history of Our Lady of the Snow basilica in Rome, also known as Saint Mary Major.
From Flickr: LawrenceOP cc-attribution-non-commercial, share alike.
From Wikipedia: Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Pope Liberius commissioned the construction of the Liberian Basilica, circa 360. According to the founding legend, which cannot be traced farther back than the thirteenth century,[3] he wanted a shrine built at the site where an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary manifested herself in identical dreams shared by a local patrician and his wife and by the pope. According to tradition, the outline of the church was physically laid out on the ground of the noble’s property by Liberius himself under a miraculous but predicted snowfall that took place on the night August 4-5 352.[4] The legendary Miracle of the Snow was depicted by Masaccio and Masolino about 1423 in a triptych commissioned by a member of the Colonna family for the Basilica, now conserved in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.[5] In it the miracle is witnessed by a crowd of holy men and women and observed from above by Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of the Snows, local Roman Catholics commemorate the miracle on each anniversary by dropping white rose petals from the dome during the feast mass.
Public Domain image from Wikipedia
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