Our Lady of Montserrat - April 27
coyotecurry's channel Our Lady of Montserrat or the Virgin of Montserrat (Catalan: Mare de Déu de Montserrat) is a Marian title associated with a venerated statue of the Madonna and Child venerated at the Santa Maria de Montserrat monastery on the Montserrat Mountain in Catalonia, Spain. She is the Patron Saint of Catalonia,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_Montserrat an honour she shares with Saint George (Sant Jordi in Catalan).en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_Montserrat The famed image once bore the inscription ''Negra Sum Sed Formosa" (Latin: I am Black, but Beautiful).
Pope Leo XIII granted the image a Canonical coronation on 11 September 1881. The image is one of the Black Madonnas of Europe, hence its familiar Catalan name, La Moreneta ("the little dark-skinned one" or "the little dark one"). Believed by some to have been carved in Jerusalem in the early days of the Church, it is more likely a Romanesque sculpture in wood from the …More