August 20
Nanebevzetí Panny Marie, Most, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
In the 1250s, the Catholics of Most built a church in early Gothic style. In 1515, it burned down. On August 20, 1517, the cornerstone of a new church was laid. The late Gothic building was dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in 1597. Baroque decorations were added in the 1700s, including the main altar painting of 1773 by Josef Kramolín. In 1975, the huge three-nave church was moved half a mile away to make room for the expansion of a lignite coal mine. Still a house of worship and the site of a diocesan pilgrimage on a Sunday near the feast of the Assumption (August 15), the church also houses a museum of Gothic and Renaissance Bohemian art.
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Also commemorated this date:
 | Madonna dell'Altarol, Poiano, Verona, Veneto, Italy. Present sanctuary inaugurated, 1883. |
| Immacolata, Macerata, Macerata, Marche, Italy. Construction began, 1893; church blessed, 1905. |
| Maria Santissima di Costantinopoli, Lercara Friddi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Festa. Painting found, 1807. |
| Maria Santissima della Catena, Scillato, Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Most Holy Mary of the Chain). Festa: mass, procession, music. |
| Madonna delle Grazie, Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy. Town co-patron. Festa, procession. |
| Madonna delle Rupe, San Martino d'Agri, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy (Madonna of the Cliffs). Town's patronal festa: procession, vendors, concert, fireworks. |
| Matka Boża Bolesna, Jarosław, Subcarpathia, Poland (Sorrowful Mother of God). Statue found, 1381. |
| Nossa Senhora da Agonia, Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal. Festa: floral carpet, giant papier-maché figures, concerts, nautical procession, fireworks. |
| Nossa Senhora da Oliva, Tojal, Sátăo, Viseu, Centro, Portugal. Festa. |
| Santa María de Cavarrosa, Barriosuso de Valdavia, Palencia, Castile and Léon, Spain. Monolith with replica dedicated, 2005. |
| Nuestra Seńora del Fuego, Baterno, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain (Our Lady of the Fire). Fiesta. |
| Virgen de la Leche, Esquivias, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain (Virgin of the Milk). Fiesta. |