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anniversaries july
July 5
Our Lady of Refuge,
California, USA
In 1843, five years before the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo gave Alta
California to the United States and Baja California to Mexico, Bishop
Garcia Diego, at Mission Santa Clara (near San José) proclaimed Nuestra
Señora del Refugio patroness of all California. With the rest of
Mexico, Baja California celebrates her feast on July 4, but in Alta
California, the feast moved to July 5 to avoid conflict with U.S.
Independence Day.
Picture of the bronze statue outside Our Lady of Refuge
Church in Long Beach, CA, from its website, www.ourladyofrefuge.org.
Also celebrated this date:
 | Queen of Families, Trakeli, Voranava, Grodno, Belarus. Icon crowned,
2009. Pilgrimage 1st Sun. |
| Economissa Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, Great
Lavra, Mt. Athos, Macedonia, Greece |
| Notre Dame de la Médaille Miraculeuse, Côteaux, Sud, Haiti. Statue
installed at locution-inspired shrine of 500 steps, 2003. National
Sanctuary. Pilgrimage nearest weekend in odd years. |
| Madonna di Campoè, Caglio, Como, Lombardy, Italy. Fresco crowned,
2009. Festa 1st Sun. |
| Beata Vergine di Loreto, Chiavenna, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy. Church
blessed, 1618. |
| Madonna Addolorata, Bigarello, Lombardy, Italy (Sorrowful Madonna).
Patronal festa of Stradella district, fair. Mass, procession, carnival,
dance. |
| Madonna dell'Asinello, Chioggia, Venezia, Veneto, Italy (Madonna of the
Little Donkey). Apparition of Mary riding a donkey, 1615. |
| Maria Santissima del Ruscello, Vallerano, Viterbo, Latium, Italy.
Fresco bled, 1604. |
| Beata Vergine Immacolata, Naples, Italy. Church inaugurated, 1964. |
| Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart, Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands
(Our Lady of the Sacred Heart). Church consecrated, 1879. |
| Virgen de las Manitas, Lima, Peru (Virgin of the Little Hands).
Miracle, 1708; fiesta. |
| Matka Boże, Ostrozany, Drohiczyn, Siemiatycze, Podlaskie, Poland.
Icon crowned, 1987. |
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