Our Lady of Mary Roggendorf

Marian vocation of Roggendorf (Lower Austria)

La advocación de Our Lady of Mary Roggendorf belongs to the pilgrimage sanctuary of Mariä Roggendorfin Wullersdorf, Lower Austria, and its cult is linked to a veneración medieval that was revived after World War II. The sources consulted place the sanctuary as a Marian pilgrimage center in this Austrian town, today associated with the Fraternity of the Holy Cross.

Main data

Origin and history

La advocación de Our Lady of Mary Roggendorf belongs to the pilgrimage sanctuary of Mariä Roggendorfin Wullersdorf, Lower Austria, and its cult is linked to a veneración medieval that was revived after World War II. The sources consulted place the sanctuary as a Marian pilgrimage center in this Austrian town, today associated with the Fraternity of the Holy Cross.

As for the precise historical origin of devotion, no consta in the sources consulted a detailed foundational narrative, nor an exact date of the apparition of medieval veneration. What does appear clearly is the continuity of veneration in contemporary times and its recovery in the Austrian context of the post-war, within the liturgical and pastoral life of the place.

The image and the sanctuary

The venerated image in Maria Roggendorf appears in the sources like the Maria Roggendorf o Mariä Roggendorfbut no con seguridad in the sources consulted a complete iconographic description, neither the material, nor the exact type of sculpture or painting.

The temple is identified as the Iglesia de María Roggendorf / Basilika María births in Marihes Roggendorf, WullersdorfHowever, in the sources provided no consta an official document that will enable us to establish here, with total certainty, its possible category of minor basilica, national sanctuary or diocesan sanctuary. It is clear that this is an important place of pilgrimage Austrian steel en marijuana.

Sponsorship and coronation

It does not contain a formal patronage documented safely in the sources consulted for municipality, diocese or nation. On the other hand, it does record its ecclesial and devotional belonging to the Roggendorf pilgrimage sanctuary in Lower Austria.

No documented canonical coronation in verified sources provided.

Party and devotion

La main party is the August 15in the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

The sources consulted present it as a devotion of pilgrimage and local arraigo revived in the post-war, with special connection to the religious life of the sanctuary and to the Fraternity of the Holy Cross. No constan in the results provided secure inflow figures, or specific popular traditions widely documented for this specific advocation.

Link to the Rosary

In the sources consulted no consta a unique and exclusive historical relationship of this advocation with the prayer of the Rosary. However, as in most Marian shrines, the Rosary naturally fits its piety: it looks at the mysteries of Christ with Mary and accompanies the inner pilgrimage that every authentic Marian devotion seeks to guard.

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