marian anniversaries     july

First Sunday in July

Madonna Ta' Lourdes, Qrendi, South Eastern District, Southern Region, Malta

In 1878, 20 years after the apparitions at Lourdes, the parish priest of Qrendi on Malta's south coast started a Confraternity of Our Lady of Lourdes there and commissioned Maltese sculptor Carlo Darmanin to make a statue for a Lourdes chapel in the town church. On the first Sunday in July (or sometimes the last Sunday in June), after solemn high mass and vespers, the statue processes through the town, accompanied by the Qrendi Lourdes Band Club and musicians from neighboring towns. As in many Maltese communities, the Lourdes Band Club maintains a fireworks factory to supply the celebration. 

Information from Lourdes Band Club, www.lourdesbandqrendi.com, and the picture source, "Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes," Skola, schoolnet.gov.mt.

Also celebrated this date:

Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro, La Poma, Salta, Argentina. Fiesta.
Onze Lieve Vrouw ten Doorn, Moregem, Wortegem-Petegem, West Flanders, Belgium (Our Dear Lady of the Hawthorne). Procession.
Onze Lieve Vrouw der Kranken, Imde, Meise, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium (Our Dear Lady of the Sick). Procession.
Notre-Dame de la Délivrance, Ramillies, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium, village of Autre-Église. Procession.
Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours, Péruwelz, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium (Our Lady of Good Help). Procession.
Notre-Dame de Kerluan, Châteaulin, Finistère, Brittany, France. Pardon: mass, refreshments.
Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France. Pardon.
Notre Dame de la Visitation, Crocq, Creuse, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Village's patronal fête: procession, cookout, parade, music, fireworks.
Notre Dame de Lugan, Puylagarde, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France. Pilgrimage to Annunciation chapel.
Notre Dame de Nazareth, Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes de Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Pilgrimage to chapel in Blégiers village.
Notre Dame des Lumières, Uvernet-Fours, Alpes de Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (Our Lady of the Lights). Pilgrimage to chapel.
Maria in der Wiese, Germershausen, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany (Mary in the Fields). Great Pilgrimage.
Sarlós Boldogasszony, Csobánka, Pest, Hungary (Visitation of the Blessed Virgin). Mass at forest chapel near healing spring.
La Consolata, Levone, Torino, Piedmont, Italy. Village's patronal festa: procession, mass, food, music.
Santa Maria del Tempio, Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. Fera dl'Amson (grain fair): mass, blessing of vehicles, tractor parade & contest.
Madonna degli Angeli, Barbana Grado, Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. Perdòn: boat procession with statue from basilica of Sant'Eufemia.
Madonna della Misericordia, Triora, Imperia, Liguria, Italy (Madonna of Mercy). Procession, band concert.
Beata Vergine delle Grazie, Berceto, Parma, Emilia Romagna, Italy. Festa del Voto (vowed during 1630 plague), procession. Festa della Madonna Sun. after Sept. 8.
Stella Maris, Tortolì, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy (Star of the Sea)
Madonna di Colle di Maggio, Olevano Romano, Roma, Lazio, Italy (Madonna of May Hill). Festa: Mass, procession, blessing & distribution of roses; food, concert.
Maria Immacolata, Buccino, Salerno, Campania, Italy. Town's patronal festa.
Madonna Santissima delle Grazie, Roccella Ionica, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. Festa: mass; procession by sea and land.
Madonna del Soccorso, Monterosso Calabro, Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy (Our Lady of Aid). Festa: mass, procession, concert.
Madonna della Salute, Pedivigliano, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, Borboruso district (Madonna of Health). Minor festa.
Madonna delle Grazie, Costantino Albanese, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy. Festa, procession.
Madonna del Pollino, San Severino Lucano, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Madonna delle Grazie, Lavangone, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Madonna del Popolo, Rivello, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Madonna d'Altomare, Mola di Bari, Bari, Apulia, Italy
Madonna Tal-Karmnu, Birkirkara, Malta
Vizitazzjoni tal-Madonna, Gharb, Gozo, Malta
Madonna tas-Sacro Cour, Sliema, Malta 
Immakulata Kuncizzjoni, Hamrun, Malta 
Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres, Monte da Cunha, Alijó, Douro, Portugal 
Nossa Senhora da Fátima, Ourém, Santarém, Centro, Portugal, Fátima district. Romaria.
Nossa Senhora da Ortiga, Fátima, Ourém, Portugal
Nosa Señora da Cela, Monfero, Coruña, Galicia, Spain
La Visitación, Les Campes, Laviana, Spain
Virgen de Lomos de Orios, Villoslada de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain
Nuestra Señora de Loreto, Peñacastillo, Santander, Cantabria, Spain. Week-long fiestas, solemn mass. Also Dec. 10.
Virgen del Moncayo, Tarazona, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Virgen de Sotobrín, Merindad de Río Ubierna, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain, Celadilla Sotobrín district
Virgen de la Vega, Pedrosa de Valdelucio, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain (Virgin of the Bottomland). Fiesta.
Nuestra Señora de las Victorias, Madrid, Spain, Tetuán district
Sorrowful Mother, Portland, Oregon, USA. Freedom Sunday, procession of immigrants in regional dress.
 

Where We Walked ~~~ Mary Ann Daly