Majunga: The Immaculate Heart of Mary Antsirabe: Our Lady of La Salette Tsiroanomandidy: Our Lady of the Good Remedy Morondava: Our Lady of La Salette Regional Shrines: Ambatolampy Antananarivo Ambohimanga (21

people, that maternal affection which makes her aware of the problems of others. We see her heartfelt goodness and her willingness to help. This is the Mother that generations of people have come here to Altötting [...] God's will, in the confident conviction that, whatever it may be, it will be our, and my own, true good. We can understand, I think, very well the attitude and words of Mary, yet we still find it very hard [...] divine wedding-feast, to which the Father invites us through the Son and in which he gives us every good thing, represented by the abundance of wine. The wedding-feast becomes an image of that moment when

day! So the work had to be done by hand… One summer evening in 1623, Nicolazic was praying to his "good mother" Saint Anne, when a strange torch suddenly appeared and lit up his room. The same occurrence

the latest addition to the Roman Empire was visited by the first disciples of Christ to share the Good News. Such was their work that in the 5 th century, in St. Augustine’s time (Augustine, a Berber from

"coming of age" of the Church. Indeed, during medieval times, temporal society, in the West and a good share of the East was true Christendom. Christianity deeply impregnated all areas of culture and society

Ichtus means fish in Greek but is also an acronym for “Jesus, the Christ , Son of God, Savior”). The Good Shepherd holding a lamb is another symbol of Christ carrying his faithful disciples. After the great

Otherwise, how could the angel, thereafter, greet her as "full of grace"; if there was in her any good which did not proceed from grace? St Bernard of Clairvaux

Marian apparitions. A larger wooden church was built in 1861 that bore the inscription “Our Lady of Good Help, pray for us.” The current chapel at the shrine was built in 1942. The largest annual gathering

the Black Madonna of Altoetting. Feast Day Our Lady of Altoetting is honored on Ash Wednesday and Good Saturday. Customs and Prayers During the pilgrimage season, the candlelight procession before the

led by Lucifer and the « China supay » who is the embodiment of female sensuality. There are also good angels who fight against them, marching behind Saint Michael. It is interesting to note that several