Our Lady of Pöllauberg

Marian vocation of Pöllauberg (Styria)

La devoción a Our Lady of Pöllauberg is attached to the sanctuary of pilgrimage of Pöllauberg, in Styria (Austria), where the local tradition places a very old Marian veneration, linked to the Gothic set raised in height over the Pöllau valley. The general historical reference of the place places it as a center of medieval pilgrimage, with roots between the 13th and 14th centuriesalthough the specific details of the first devotional origins are not sufficiently accurate in the sources consulted.

Main data

Origin and history

La devoción a Our Lady of Pöllauberg is attached to the sanctuary of pilgrimage of Pöllauberg, in Styria (Austria), where the local tradition places a very old Marian veneration, linked to the Gothic set raised in height over the Pöllau valley. The general historical reference of the place places it as a center of medieval pilgrimage, with roots between the 13th and 14th centuriesalthough the specific details of the first devotional origins are not sufficiently accurate in the sources consulted.

La tradition a special protection of the Virgin in the time of the plague and war, a common feature of several Central European shrines, which explains their roots as a place of appeal and thanksgiving. However, for this particular advocation, the available verifiable data do not allow a more accurate chronology of foundational miracles or of first ecclesial interventions to be established with certainty, so these aspects should be left in no consta when it is drafted rigorously.

The image and the sanctuary

The venerated image is named after Maria Pöllauberg; the sources consulted do not allow the exact type of image, su material or a detailed iconography, so that data should be reported as no consta if no museum inventory or record of the sanctuary is available. It is clear that devotion is associated with the Pöllauberg pilgrimage church, located on the top of the hill, and that the place is an important temple Gothic de peregrinación.

The sanctuary is usually identified as the Pöllauberg pilgrimage church; in the sources provided it is not established that minor basilicanor a designation of National sanctuary o diocesan. For a rigorous editorial record, it is appropriate to present it as church / pilgrimage sanctuary of Pöllauberg (Styria, Austria)without adding unverified titles.

Sponsorship and coronation

According to the information available, Our Lady of Pöllauberg is considered patron saint of the valley de Pöllau. The sources consulted do not contain a civil or ecclesiastical patronage of greater scope - municipal, diocesan or national - that can be safely affirmed for this advocation.

It also does not contain a documented canonical coronation in the sources provided, and should therefore be indicated exactly as follows: does not contain a documented canonical coronation.

Party and devotion

La main party is the August 15, solemnidad de la Assumption of the Virgin Mary. This date fits the Marian profile of the sanctuary and the strong liturgical imprint of the summer pilgrimages in Austria.

As for popular devotion, the sources consulted present Pöllauberg as a place of pilgrimage and pleas in serious needs, especially in historical contexts of pest y war. They do not contain reliable data on flow figures, specific novies or detailed popular traditions in the sources provided; these aspects should therefore be left in no consta if documents of the sanctuary itself or of the diocese are not available.

Link to the Rosary

There is no specific and documented historical relationship between Our Lady of Pöllauberg y una Rosarian fellowship, title or practice the sanctuary. Even so, as in many Central European Marian advocates, the Rosary naturally integrates into this devotion as a contemplative prayer that accompanies the pilgrimage, the supplication and the thanksgiving to Mary, especially in places where the memory of maternal protection has been transmitted over the centuries.

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