Our Lady of the Trinity

Marian Invocation of Blois (Central-Loira Valley)

La advocación de Our Lady of the Trinity is historically linked to the city of Blois, Central-Loira Valley, Francewhere a Marian sanctuary was erected with this title in the 20th century. This advocation does not appear among the traditional or patronal Marian advocacy of Colombia collected by academic studies and specialized lists on Marian popular religiosity in the country.

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Origin and history

La advocación de Our Lady of the Trinity is historically linked to the city of Blois, Central-Loira Valley, Francewhere a Marian sanctuary was erected with this title in the 20th century. This advocation does not appear among the traditional or patronal Marian advocacy of Colombia collected by academic studies and specialized lists on Marian popular religiosity in the country.

La devoción en Blois (France) developed in the context of the rise of new sanctuaries and Marian movements in Europe during the 20th century, but in the sources consulted in Spanish and in the repertory of Marian advocations of Colombia no consta no reference to a P. Auvray, or to revelations in 1910, or to international missionary irradiation specifically linked to a foundation in Colombia. Nor is it documented the existence of a Marian sanctuary formally called "Our Lady of the Trinity" in some city called Blois in Colombia, so there is a high probability that it is a geographical confusion between Blois (France) and Colombia.

From the strictly historical - documentary point of view, it can be said that the advocation Our Lady of the Trinity is associated with Blois (France) and Marian spirituality focused on the Trinitarian mystery; but no consta that there exists, at the official or diocesan level, a homonymous advocation erected as a sanctuary in Colombia with equitable ecclesial recognition.

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The image and the sanctuary

In the sources consulted in Spanish about Marian advocacy in Colombia no consta a description of an image of Our Lady of the Trinity venerated in a sanctuary in Blois, Colombia, no data on the type of image (sculpture, painting, relief), material or specific iconography.

Similarly, in the lists of Marian shrines and patrons of Colombian dioceses does not appear an official sanctuary (diocesan, national or recognized as a minor basilica) under the title Our Lady of the Trinity / Note- Give me of the Trinity in Colombian territory. No verifiable data on the official canonical name of the temple, its category (parish, sanctuary, basilica), and its architectural characteristics.

On the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Trinity in Blois (Francia) There are data in other languages, but the user has expressly asked not to confuse this advocation with other homonyms in other countries; therefore, details of this European sanctuary are not included, as an institutional or legal link with Colombia has not been verified in the specialized sources consulted.

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Sponsorship and coronation

En el repertorio de Patronas de dioceses y asvocaciones Marian local de Colombia (mariology. org), no aparece Our Lady of the Trinity as patron of any diocese, city or department. It is also not found in studies on Marian popular religiosity in Colombia, where the main historical claims are mentioned (Virgin of the Rosary, Virgin of the Carmen, Immaculate, Chiquinquirá, etc.). Therefore, no consta that this advocation has a Official patronage in the Church in Colombia.

As regards a canonical coronation, neither the repertory of Marian advocations, nor the portals of Marian spirituality consulted, nor the accessible online documentation on canonical coronations in Colombia mention a coronation of Our Lady of the Trinity related to Blois (Colombia). Accordingly, according to the instruction received, it should be indicated:

"There is no documented canonical coronation."

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Party and devotion

The proposed date (12 October) for the Our Lady of the Trinity (Notre- Dame de la Trinité) in the appears documented in the repertories of the Marian parties of Colombia consulted and in the descriptions of the main claims rooted in the country. At the Colombian level, October 12 is more associated with other meanings (day of the Virgin of Pilar in Spain, day of Hispanity, or other celebrations), but not as a widely recognized date for a Marian advocation of the Trinity.

No references to organized pilgrimages, popular traditions, novenas, processions or data of the inflow of the faithful specifically linked to a sanctuary of Our Lady of the Trinity in Blois (Colombia). There is also no evidence that this advocation is among the most frequent in Colombian popular religiosity, where other Marian advocations predominate.

As far as Colombia is concerned, it should therefore be strictly stated: It does not contain a liturgical or popular feast of its own, or devotional traditions clearly documented for this advocation.

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Link to the Rosary

In revised sources no consta a specific and documented link between Our Lady of the Trinity (Notre- Dame de la Trinité) and the prayer of Rosary in Colombia (for example, co-fradies of the Rosary erected in its sanctuary, particular indulgences, national campaigns explicitly associated with this advocation).

However, from a general mariological perspective, any genuinely Marian advocation is inserted into the life of the Church where the Rosary occupies a privileged place as contemplative prayer of the mysteries of Christ with Mary. The Rosary, by meditating on the joyful, luminous, painful and glorious mysteries, leads to the mystery of the Trinitysince all the mysteries of the life of Jesus, considered with Mary, refer to the love of the Father, a la Incarnation of the Son and the action of the Holy Spirit.

For this reason, although no conste a specific rosarian practice linked to this advocation in Colombia, is theologically consistent that devotion to Our Lady of the Trinity se alimente de la oración del Rosario: – porque el Rosario es una escuela de Trinitarian contemplation centrada en Cristo, – porque María, al ser llamada “Hija del Padre, Madre del Hijo y Esposa del Espíritu Santo”, introduce al fiel precisamente en el corazón del misterio trinitario.

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Since the commission mentions very concrete data (P. Auvray, 1910, international missionary irradiation, Blois shrine in Colombia) that could not be verified in reliable ecclesial, academic or Catholic sourcesany concrete extension of names, dates, temples or practices would be an invention and therefore contrary to the rules established in the consultation.