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feasts september
Sunday after September 8
Notre-Dame de Cléry, Cléry-Sant-André, Loiret, Centre, France
The shrine began around 1280 with discovery of a statue of the Virgin, for which Philippe IV & VI built a magnificent
church. The English destroyed it in 1428. In 1443, they beseiged Dieppe, and Dauphin Louis XI vowed to rebuild Notre-Dame de Cléry if
the seige were raised. When it was, he rebuilt the church in exquisite Flamboyant Gothic style, and after winning the battle of Montlhéry
in 1465,
made the collegial church of Cléry a royal chapel in 1467. On September 7, 1483, he was buried there.
Calvinists destroyed the Virgin's image in 1562; some 60 years later Louis
XIII donated the present statue in replacement. Our Lady of Cléry is
considered a Black Virgin, although her complexion is not very dark. Perhaps
the original was blacker. Certainly the pose, seated with the child centered
on his mother's lap, both looking forward, is typical of medieval French vierges
noires. There are two big pilgrimage days: September
8, the Feast of Mary's Birth, with a procession to the Basilica, mass,
lunch, lecture, rosary, and vespers; and the Sunday following, when pilgrims
march to the Basilica from three different locations for lunch, a group
procession, and solemn mass.
(Information from Philippe Araguas, www.clery-saint-andre.com/basilique.html. Picture from
www.chateauxcountry.com/chateaux/clery/present.html.)
Also celebrated this date:
 | Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.
Mass and procession (on September 8 if a Sunday). |
| Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Roeselberg, Houwaart, Tielt-Winge, Brabant,
Flanders, Belgium. Procession. |
| Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Hollebeke, Hollebeke, East Flanders, Belgium.
Parish kermis (fair). Novena Sept. 8-16 with sung mass
daily. |
| Nossa Senhora da Vitória, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil (Our Lady of
Victory). Festa, street procession. |
| Notre-Dame des Anges, Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.
Pilgrimage to chapel. |
| Notre-Dame du Chêne, Bar-sur-Seine, Aube, Grand Est, France
(Our Lady of the Oak). Pilgrimage to chapel. |
| Notre-Dame de Bulat, Bulat-Pestivien, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France.
Pardon. |
| Nativité de la Vierge Marie, Le Puy-Notre-Dame, Maine-et-Loire,
Pays de la Loire, France. Pilgrimage. |
| Notre-Dame de l'Eau, Auxerre, Yonne, Burgundy, France |
| Notre-Dame-des-Vernusses, Bresnay, Allier, Auvergne, France |
| Notre Dame de Bellecassagne, Miramont-de-Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne,
Midi-Pyrénées,
France |
| Notre Dame de Cahuzac, Gimont, Gers, Midi-Pyrénées, France |
| Notre Dame du Réal, Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur,
France (Our Lady Royal) |
| Schmerzhafte Mutter, Bethen, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
(Sorrowful Mother). Candlelight procession. |
| St. Maria in der Kupfergasse, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany (St. Mary on Copper Alley) |
| Unserer Lieben Frau, Zwiefalten, Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Patronal feast of cathedral. |
| Máriaremete, Budapest, Hungary (Mary's chapel) |
| Fájdalmas Anya, Segesd, Somogy, Hungary (Sorrowful Mother) |
| Our Lady of the Mount, Bandra, Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra, India |
| Santa Maria della Stella, Trana, Torino, Piedmont, Italy |
| Madonna di San Tommaso, Bonavigo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
| Madonna della Misericordia, Mallare, Savona, Liguria, Italy |
| Madonna del Deserto, Millesimo, Savona, Liguria, Italy |
| Madonna delle Grazie, Villanova d'Albenga, Savona, Liguria, Italy |
| Madonna delle Grazie, Cerreto Laziale, Roma, Latium, Italy |
| Santa Maria di Ognina, Catania, Catania, Sicily, Italy |
| Madonna tal-Grazzja, Zabbar, Malta |
| Narodzenia
Najświętszej Maryi Panny, Kolniczki, Nowe Miasto nad Wartą,
Środa Wielkopolska, Greater Poland, Poland |
| Matka
Boża Pocieszenia, Dąbrówka Kościelna, Kiszkowo, Gniezno, Greater Poland, Poland.
Also Aug. 15. |
| Matka
Boża Loretańska, Kamieńczyk, Wyszków, Masovia, Poland |
| Nuestra Señora de la Barca, Muxia, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain |
| Virgen del Moral, Los Llares, Arenas de Iguña, Besaya, Cantabria, Spain |
| Virgen de las Viñas, Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Castile and León,
Spain. Big Day of fiestas. |
| Nuestra Señora de Redonda, Covarrubias, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.
Romería. |
| Virgen de Manciles, Lerma, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain |
| Virgen de Hontanares, Riaza, Segovia, Castile and León, Spain |
| Nuestra Señora de la Fuensanta, Murcia, Spain |
| Virgen del Pino, Teror, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain |
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