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Anceint antioch osketch12/25/2022 ![]() ![]() Since then, the Shrine draws thousands upon thousands of devoted pilgrims to the hal lowed grounds of Mount Saint Macrina in Uniontown every year. In 1934, the venerable Sisters dedicated a shrine on Mount Saint Macrina to Our Mother of Perpetual Help and in the same year inaugurated the widely-known Labor Day weekend Pilgrimage to the shrine. ![]() Basil the Great in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, with an icon of the Mother of Perpetual Help with the expressed desire that they foster devotion to her under that title. It is estimated that at the present time over 2,000 Catholic parishes in the United States alone conduct special devotions to the Mother of Perpetual Help.Īmong Byzantine Catholics in America, devotion to the Mother of God under the title of Perpetual Help received a great impetus when Pope Pius XI presented the Sisters of St. One copy was placed in the Redemptorist chapel in Annapolis, Maryland and the other in the St. Copies of the icon were first brought to the United States in 1868. Alphonsus in Rome by the Redemptorist Fathers whose dedication to the Mother of God has caused devotion to her to be spread all over the world under the title of Mother of Perpetual Help. The original icon is tenaciously guarded in the Church of St. Being transported from the East to the West, it has become popular throughout the world and the source of perpetual blessing and consolation for many peoples. Surrounded by a nimbus of great antiquity and painted in genuine Byzantine style, this icon was instrumental in the many miracles. One of the world’s best known icons of the Blessed Mother is the miraculous 5th century icon of the Mother of Perpetual Help. ![]() THE MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP AND BYZANTINE CATHOLICS ![]()
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