Monday after Pentecost
Notre-Dame de la Délivrance, Popenguine, Mbour, Thiès, Senegal
In 1887, Bishop Mathurin Picarda visited the mission of the
Holy Ghost Fathers in Guéréo, Senegal, for the baptism of its first
Catholic converts. The priests took a walk along the coast to the village
of Popenguine. "What a magnificent site for a sanctuary to the
Virgin!" the bishop observed. A native of Brittany, he decided to
designate a famous Black Virgin in the neighboring province of Normandy,
Notre Dame de la Délivrande, as patron saint of the new shrine, altering
her title from the cryptic Celtic Notre-Dame de la Delivrande to the
French Délivrance. A Norman benefactor provided a replica statue, which
Msgr. Picard blessed on May 22, 1888, the Tuesday after Pentecost, during
the first pilgrimage to the shrine at Popenguine. The shrine at Popenguine
suffered many closures and setbacks during the next century, involving
building collapse, epidemics of yellow fever and sleeping sickness, the
Great War, and a shipwreck that took the lives of the bishop and 16
missionaries. The area remained primarily Muslim, but the Catholic faith
and devotion to Our Lady of Deliverance persisted. A new church was built,
dedicated in 1988 to the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin
Mary and proclaimed a minor basilica in 1991 at the request of Cardinal
Hyacinthe Thiamdoum, a native of Popenguine. Pope John Paul II visited the
shrine and crowned the statue of Our Lady of Deliverance on February 20,
1992. Tens of thousands of pilgrims, many of them young people marching
together, and many inspired by rumors of Marian apparitions there, go to
Popenguine for an annual three-day celebration ending on Pentecost Monday, featuring solemn
mass and a procession from the church to the Black Virgin's grotto shrine
in the sea cliff. Photo and information from the shrine's website, Sanctuaire de Poponguine, www.sanctuaire-poponguine.sn/hi-1887.php.
Also commemorated this date:
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| Onze Lieve Vrouw, Kampenhout, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium. Eight-mile procession stops at eight chapels. |
| Notre-Dame du Try-au-Chêne, Genappe, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium. Procession to rural chapel. |
| Notre Dame de Liesse, Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France (Our Lady of Joy). Pilgrimage. |
| Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Villembray, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France. (Our Lady of the Flowers) Pilgrimage, masses. Also Sept. 8. |
| Notre-Dame, Villembray, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France. Pilgrimage, masses. Also Sept. 8. |
| Notre-Dame de Liesse, Berneval-le-Grand, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. Pilgrimage, mass. |
| Notre-Dame de la Couture, Bernay, Eure, Normandy, France (Our Lady of Cultivation). Pilgrimage, mass, meal. |
| Notre-Dame du Vallet, La Ferté-en-Ouche, Orne, Normandy, France. Open-air mass. |
| Notre-Dame de Bonne Garde, Longpont-sur-Orge, Essonne, Île-de-France, France (Our Lady of Safekeeping) |
| Notre-Dame de Divers-Monts, Fumay, Ardennes, Grand Est, France (Our Lady of Many Mountains) |
| Notre-Dame de Kerzéan, Plouescat, Finistère, Brittany, France. Pardon. |
| Notre-Dame de Champrond, Vinneuf, Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Pilgrimage, mass at woodland chapel. |
| Notre-Dame la Blanche, Faverney, Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (White Lady) |
| Notre-Dame de l'Ermitage, Mièges, Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (Our Lady of the Hermitage) |
| Notre-Dame de la Borne, Saint-Michel-de-Veisse, Creuse, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Procession. |
| Notre Dame de la Paix, Saint Auvent, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (Our Lady of Peace). Annual Big Pilgrimage. |
| Notre Dame du Rugby, Larrivière, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Fête, offering of rugby shirts, mass, reception, picnic, memorial service. |
| Notre-Dame de Laurie, Laurie, Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Pilgrimage. |
| Notre-Dame de Haute Serre, Auzits, Aveyron, Occitanie, France (Our Lady of the High Sierra). Processions, mass. |
| Notre Dame de Lapeyrouse, Lafrançaise, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France. Solemn mass, blessing of children, reception, meal at a restaurant. |
| Notre Dame, Biran, Gers, Occitanie, France. Sung mass. |
| Notre Dame de Bouit, Nogaro, Gers, Occitanie, France. Mass at chapel. |
| Notre-Dame du Bout-du-Puy, Valentine, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France. Also Easter Monday. Pietà. |
| Notre-Dame-du-Marsan, Saint-Lizier, Ariège, Occitanie, France. Procession to chapel commemorates end of 1630 plague. |
| Notre Dame des Auzils, Gruissan, Aude, Occitanie, France. Also Easter Mon. |
| Notre-Dame des Abeilles, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France (formerly) |
| Notre Dame du Coral, Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France. Pilgrimage: mass, dances, lunch, farewell service. |
| Notre Dame de Vers-la-Ville, Annot, Alpes de Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Pilgrimage. |
| Notre-Dame de Vie, Vénasque, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (Our Lady of Life) |
| Mariabuchen, Lohr, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany (Beechwood Mary). Procession through beech woods. |
| All-Holy Revealed Lady, Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece. Gathering at Orthodox monastery in honor of icon not made with hands. |
| Madonna della Comuna, Ostiglia, Mantova, Lombardy, Italy. Festa commemorates 1300s healing apparition to deaf-mute girl, requesting a chapel. |
| Madonna delle Tre Fontane, Stelvio, Bolzano, Trentino-Alto-Adige, Italy (Madonna of Three Springs). Statue moves to shrine for summer. |
| Madonna della Coraglia, Imola, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Street procession. |
| Madonna delle Rose, Piglio, Frosinone, Latium, Italy. Street procession, solemn mass, fireworks. |
| Madonna dell'Acqua Santa, Laureana Cilento, Salerno, Campania, Italy (Madonna of the Holy Water). Festa. |
| Madonna dei Campi, Giovi, Salerno, Campania, Italy (Madonna of the Fields). Festa: solemn mass and procession. |
| Madonna della Pace, Giugliano in Campania, Napoli, Campania, Italy (Madonna of Peace). Procession and Angel's Flight by suspended girl. |
| Madonna di Costantinopoli, Barile, Lucania, Basilicata, Italy. Festa |
| Santissima Maria di Anzano, Anzano di Puglia, Foggia, Italy. Festa. |
| Matka Boska Górecka, Górka Klasztorna, Lobzenica, Pila, Greater Poland, Poland. Shrine's feast day commemorates 1079 apparition. |
| Nossa Senhora de Vagos, Vagos, Aveiro, Centro, Portugal. Romaria: procession, open air dancing, fireworks |
| Nossa Senhora dos Verdes, Mangualde, Viseu, Centro, Portugal, Abrunhosa-a-Velha district. Festa. |
| Nosa Señora da Guía, San Paio de Carreira, Ribeira, Coruña, Galicia, Spain (Our Lady the Guide). Solemn mass, procession, dance with orchestra. |
| Virgen de los Remedios, Encinedo, Léon, Castile and Léon, Spain, Forna district. Romería. |
| Nuestra Señora del Desprecio, Martín Muñoz de las Posadas, Villa, Segovia, Castile and Léon, Spain (Our Lady of the Scorning). Fiesta. |
| Nuestra Señora de la Concha, La Hiniesta, Zamora, Castile and Léon, Spain. Romería. |
| Nuestra Señora de Valdejimena, Horcajo Medianero, Salamanca, Castile and Léon, Spain. Romería. |
| La Concepción, Briones, La Rioja, Spain. Romería. |
| Virgen de Rodanas, Épila, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. Romería. |
| Santísima Virgen de la Nuez, Santa María de la Nuez, Sobrarbe, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. Romería. |
| Virgen de los Palacios, Aínsa, Sobrarbe, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. Romería. |
| Santa María, Ribera de Cardós, Vall de Cardós, Pallars Sobirá, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Fiesta. Also Sept. 8. |