Our Lady of the Dolores of Ujjain

Marian vocation of Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)

La advocación de Our Lady of the Dolores of Ujjain belongs to the field of Latin Catholicism in India and is linked to diocesan shrine of Ujjainin Madhya Pradesh. The information available from the sources consulted places its origin in the context of the creation of the diocese in 1968when the sanctuary was established as a centre of prayer and intercession for the suffering of the local population. [The sources do not contain an ancient narrative of apparitions or a legendary foundational account comparable to that of other Indian Marian shrines.]

Main data

Origin and history

La advocación de Our Lady of the Dolores of Ujjain belongs to the field of Latin Catholicism in India and is linked to diocesan shrine of Ujjainin Madhya Pradesh. The information available from the sources consulted places its origin in the context of the creation of the diocese in 1968when the sanctuary was established as a centre of prayer and intercession for the suffering of the local population. [The sources do not contain an ancient narrative of apparitions or a legendary foundational account comparable to that of other Indian Marian shrines.]

So what can be said for sure is that it is a devotion. in its institutionalizationborn in the pastoral framework of the diocese, rather than a documented medieval or colonial tradition. The advocation is inserted in the long history of the Virgin of the Dolores, cuya fiesta litúrgica universal se celebra el 15 September and whose spirituality includes Mary's participation in the suffering of Christ.

The image and the sanctuary

The sources provided describe the place as a diocesan sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows in Ujjain, but no consta a sufficiently detailed public record on the material, el author o la precise iconography of the venerated image. It is clear that this is a painful image of the Virgin, that is, a representation of Mary in her condition of Mater Dolorosaassociated with pain and compassion for human suffering.

Nor does it know that the shrine of Ujjain has the title of minor basilica o de National sanctuary; the verifiable is their condition of diocesan sanctuary. In addition, the accessible documentation does not contain secure data to identify a more developed official name of the temple other than its Marian advocation and its diocesan link.

Sponsorship and coronation

The verifiable patronage is first and foremost diocesanbecause the shrine of Ujjain was built as a centre of intercession to accompany the suffering of the people of its surroundings. There is no formal patronage of the city, municipality or nation with available sources.

On the canonical coronation, does not contain a documented canonical coronation in the sources consulted.

Party and devotion

La main party of Our Lady of Dolores is the 15 September. This date coincides with the universal liturgical memory of the Virgin Dolorosa, widely extended in the Latin Church.

In the case of Ujjain, devotion is oriented to the prayer for those who suffer and for the specific needs of the local community, so the sanctuary performs a pastoral function of consolation, intercession and spiritual accompaniment. No constan in the sources provided secure data on great pilgrimages, inflow figures or specific popular traditions of this sanctuary.

Link to the Rosary

There is no specific and documented historical link of this advocation of Ujjain with a the Rosary or with a particular rosarian rite of the sanctuary. However, the spiritual relationship is clear: the Rosary the painful mysteriesin which Mary's contemplation at the foot of the Cross illuminates precisely the spirituality of the Virgin of the Dolores.

Therefore, in a devotional sheet for a site of the Rosary, this sanctuary can be presented as a place where the Marian prayer finds a special accent on the Mary's compassionHis closeness to human suffering and his role as an intercessor before Christ.