{"id":32580,"date":"2015-09-01T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32580"},"modified":"2015-09-02T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:41:32","slug":"our-lady-of-monte-vergine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/our-lady-of-monte-vergine\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Monte Vergine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OL<\/a>On these U.S. shores a devotion to the Mother of God under the title of Our Lady of Monte Vergine<\/em> is unknown by most people. There are, however, those of us who know Italy and the presence of the Benedictine abbey on Monte Vergine that inspires us to use this title to Mary. From the image herewith it is difficult to grasp that the icon is quite large, with a height of over 12 feet and width of over 6 feet; it shows the Mary\u00a0seated on a throne with the Infant Jesus seated on her lap. Historians call\u00a0icon of the Mother and Child, \u201cof Constantinople\u201d (because it is said to have been brought to Italy by King Baldwin of Jerusalem) given to\u00a0the Benedictine monks in 1310. King Baldwin. The image is dark, so the icon is often referred to as one of the \u201cBlack Madonnas\u201d; a title given to several images of the Holy Virgin Mother.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0famous Benedictine sanctuary located in the village of Montevergine (of\u00a0Campanian region of Italy); the\u00a0\u201cMonte Vergine\u201d comes from the religious history going back to the pre-Christian era when there was a temple of Cybele existed. A chapel of the Blessed Virgin was built in the seventh century. In 1119, Saint William of Vercelli founded the monastery that still exists. Saint William was a hermit\u00a0who came back to his native Italy after making a pilgrimage to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Saint William had the reputation for sanctity inspiring many to live in cells on the mountain. Monasticism still is present there. The first true church was constructed in 1126, and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.<\/p>\n

Today, it is reported that over one-and-one-half million pilgrims yearly pay homage to\u00a0Our Lady of Montevergine. The most popular day is Pentecost. There have been numerous miracles attributed to this portrait of the Mother of God and her Divine Son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On these U.S. shores a devotion to the Mother of God under the title of Our Lady of Monte Vergine is unknown by most people. There are, however, those of us who know Italy and the presence of the Benedictine abbey on Monte Vergine that inspires us to use this title to Mary. From the … Continue reading Our Lady of Monte Vergine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[32089,32088],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32585,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions\/32585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}