Marian devotion
Our Lady of Lake Bam
Marian Invocation of the Environ of Lake Bam (near Kongoussi) (Diocese of Ouahigouya)
Recognized by the Church
It is a Marian sanctuary or pilgrimage place of the Diocese of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso), dedicated to Our Lady of Lake Bam, in the surroundings of Lake Bam, to the north of the country, near Kongoussi. Fides agency points it out as a Marian place in the diocese. The exact canonical category is not included.
Main data
Origin and history
It is a Marian sanctuary or pilgrimage place of the Diocese of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso), dedicated to Our Lady of Lake Bam, in the surroundings of Lake Bam, to the north of the country, near Kongoussi. Fides agency points it out as a Marian place in the diocese. The exact canonical category is not included.
The image and the sanctuary
It is not available.
Sponsorship and coronation
It is not available.
Party and devotion
The link to a lake in a semisecal area underlines the dimension of Mary as an intercessor for the life and fertility of the earth. It does not contain a liturgical feast of its own; other details do not contain.
Link to the Rosary
On the banks of the lake, the Rosary rises as a prayer for life and for the rain that sustains the peoples. With Mary are the mysteries of Christ, a source of living water, in this sanctuary of the Burkinese north.
A flower for the Virgin
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