Marian devotions of the Holy Land
The Holy Land is the cradle of all Marian devotion: Nazareth the angel announced to Mary that he would be the Mother of God; in A Karem And the Magnificat sang; and on Mount Zion of Jerusalem his Sleep and his Tomb in Gethsemane. We collect your main sanctuaries.
🌹 Marian wonders and anecdotes from the Holy Land
- Nazareth - upon the house of Mary the Basilica of the Annunciation rises, in the place where the angel Gabriel asked him to be the Mother of God and she answered, "Let it be done in me according to your word." here began the story of salvation.
- A Karem - the Church of the Visitation recalls the encounter of Mary with her cousin Elizabeth and the singing of the Magnificat.
- Jerusalem - the abbey of the Sleeping, on Mount Zion, will venerate the passage of the Virgin; and in Gethsemane its empty Tomb is honored.
- Stella Maris (monte Carmelo) - on Mount Elijah was born the Order of Carmen and devotion to Mary, Star of the Sea.
Galilee
Our Lady of the Annunciation
The Annunciation is above all an evangelical mystery, narrated by Saint Luke: the angel Gabriel is sent by God to a virgin betrothed to Joseph, named Mary, in Nazareth of Galilee, and there announces to her that she will conceive the Son of God;…
🙏 Our Lady of the Annunciation, pray for us.
Our Lady of Carmen, Stella Maris
On Mount Carmel, above the present-day city of Haifa, a community of Latin hermits developed from the time of the Crusades, giving rise to the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Carmelites).
🙏 Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Stella Maris, pray for us.
Jerusalem
Our Lady of the Dormition
The “Dormition of Mary” is an ancient Christian tradition that states that the Virgin Mary concluded her earthly life in Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, where she “fell asleep” in the Lord, while her body was later taken to the valley of…
🙏 Our Lady of the Dormition, pray for us.
Judea
Our Lady of the Visitation
The Visitation of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Saint Elizabeth in the “city of Judah” is a Gospel event narrated by Saint Luke (Lk 1:39-56), the biblical foundation of this devotion and of the liturgical memorial of the Visitation of the…
🙏 Our Lady of the Visitation, pray for us.
The well of Mary (Nazareth)
Mary's Well stands above the only spring in Nazareth. According to an ancient Eastern tradition, recorded in the Protoevangelium of James, it was here—while the Virgin Mary was washing her hands—that she began to drink water from the spring.
🙏 Mary's Well, pray for us.
The Tomb of the Virgin Mary (Jerusalem)
At the foot of the Mount of Olives, near Gethsemane, an underground church houses the rock-cut tomb venerated as the burial place of the Virgin Mary. The tradition…
🙏 The Tomb of the Virgin Mary, pray for us.
Our Lady Queen of Palestine (Deir Rafat)
The Deir Rafat shrine, founded by the Latin Patriarch Luigi Barlassina in the 1920s, placed all of Palestine under the patronage of the Mother of God as "Queen of Palestine."
🙏 Our Lady Queen of Palestine, pray for us.
Ntra. Mrs. of the Assumption of Jerusalem
The Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion commemorates the place where the Virgin Mary fell asleep before her Assumption. It is a center of prayer and pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
🙏 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
Ntra. Sra. del Monte Carmelo de Haifa (Stella Maris)
The Stella Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel is the birthplace of the Carmelite Order. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Star of the Sea, has been venerated on this sacred mountain since the 12th century.
🙏 Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.
Immaculate Conception of Bethlehem (Saint Catherine)
The Church of Saint Catherine of Bethlehem, next to the Basilica of the Nativity, is the center of the Latin Catholic community in the city where Jesus was born.
🙏 Immaculate Conception, pray for us.
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