Our Lady of the Help of Zlaté Hory

Marian Advocation of Zlaté Hory (Silesia)

La advocación de Our Lady of the Help of Zlaté Hory — in checo Virgin Mary the Golden Mountain and in German Maria Hilf- is linked to a Marian sanctuary located in Zlaté Hory, in the Olomouc region, Jeseník district, Czech Republic. The local denomination clearly indicates that it is the devotion of Golden Mountains, not from other homonymous claims extended by Europe and America.

Main data

Origin and history

La advocación de Our Lady of the Help of Zlaté Hory — in checo Virgin Mary the Golden Mountain and in German Maria Hilf- is linked to a Marian sanctuary located in Zlaté Hory, in the Olomouc region, Jeseník district, Czech Republic. The local denomination clearly indicates that it is the devotion of Golden Mountains, not from other homonymous claims extended by Europe and America.

La local tradition associate this place with a venerated image as a copy of the famous Passau's help (Maria Hilf), a model of wide dissemination at the Central European level; however, the results provided do not contain a sufficiently documented chronology to specify with certainty the origin of the first image, the details of its arrival or the alleged initial prodigies. These extremes must, by rigour, be left at no consta.

As for the documented historythe original sanctuary was demolished during the communist regime and the cult was restored behind 1989 with the reconstruction of the pilgrimage place. The current location source identifies the temple as Church of Saint Mary of Help, in Zlaté Hory 170.

The image and the sanctuary

The venerated image is presented under the title of Mary Helper / Our Lady of Relief; the sources provided do not contain a detailed material description of the size, size, or exact material, and such data should therefore be indicated as no consta. The devotional identification with the tradition of Maria Hilf and his relationship with Passau's model.

The temple where it is venerated is located in Golden Mountains 170, Golden Mountains, Jeseník District, Olomouc Region, Czechia. The sources provided do not contain their specific canonical status as minor basilica, National sanctuary o diocesan sanctuary; therefore, it should be simply stated as shrine / church of Mary Auxiliary to have a more accurate official source.

Sponsorship and coronation

The sources do not contain an unequivocal formal patronage of city, municipality, diocese or nation for this specific advocation of Zlaté Hory. To avoid confusion with other homonymous claims, the strict reference to the shrine of Zlaté Hory (Chequia).

On the canonical coronation, does not contain a documented canonical coronation in the information provided.

Party and devotion

In the sources provided no consta a liturgical date of its own and universally established as the main feast of this advocation in Zlaté Hory. There are no reliable numbers of inflow, nor an official schedule of pilgrimages, nor specific popular traditions that can be safely attributed to this sanctuary.

It is, in general terms, a place of devotion restored after the fall of communism, which places its current piety in the context of the recovery of the Central European Marian shrines after 1989.

Link to the Rosary

In the documentation provided no consta a direct and explicit relationship with the prayer of the Rosary for this specific advocation. However, the spirituality of a Marian sanctuary like this is naturally harmonized with the Rosary, because the contemplation of Christ with Mary is the center of the rosarian devotion; therefore, this advocation can be presented in a sober manner as a framework especially suitable to meditate on the mysteries of the life of the Lord with the Virgin.