Marian devotion

Our Lady of Grace of Marylake

Marian title of King City (Marylake) (Ontario)
Popular devotion (not officially recognized by the Church)

Our Lady of Grace (Our Lady of Grace) se venera en el Santuario de Marylake, in King City, Ontario, founded by agustinian order. The place works as a spiritual retreat house and as a Marian pilgrimage center of the archdiocese of Toronto. There is no foundational legend of apparition; the sanctuary is born of the Augustinian implantation and Marian devotion cultivated by the religious community.

Main data

Place: King City (Marylake) (Ontario, Canadá)
Party: August 15

Origin and history

Our Lady of Grace (Our Lady of Grace) se venera en el Santuario de Marylake, in King City, Ontario, founded by agustinian order. The place works as a spiritual retreat house and as a Marian pilgrimage center of the archdiocese of Toronto. There is no foundational legend of apparition; the sanctuary is born of the Augustinian implantation and Marian devotion cultivated by the religious community.

The image and the sanctuary

The sanctuary conserves a statue of Our Lady of Grace y destaca por su great Rosary to the libre, a prayer tour in the natural environment of the place. The whole, of a serene character and conducive to withdrawal, is a Marian shrine regional and the point of diocesan pilgrimages.

Sponsorship and coronation

No consta a patronazgo civil ni a canonical coronation documented from the image. Its relevance is that of an important pilgrimage place of the archdiocese of Toronto.

Party and devotion

The main feast of the sanctuary is the August 15, solemnidad de la Assumption of the Virgin. Devotion is lived on pilgrimages, retreats and prayer days promoted by the Augustines.

Link to the Rosary

The link is especially narrow: Marylake has a great Rosary to the libre, designed for pilgrims to walk and meditate on the mysteries in nature. Our Lady of Grace thus invites, in a very concrete way, to make the Rosary the central path of the pilgrimage to the sanctuary.

A flower for the Virgin

Offer a simple prayer to this Marian devotion. Pray a Hail Mary for Canada and for world peace.

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Sources: tradition of the sanctuary, diocesan information and Wikipedia in Spanish. The distinction between popular piety and documented ecclesial history is specific to this fact sheet; extraordinary accounts are presented as devotion and not as doctrinal pronunciation.

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