marian anniversaries september
September 14
Mariä Schmerzen, Legau, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Maria Steinbach district
In 1723, pilgrims began pouring into the Church of Saints Ulrich and Verena in Steinbach, after the abbot of a nearby monastery gave it a fragment of the Holy Cross. In 1728, the church acquired a set of painted wood statues representing the Crucifixion, the Sorrowful Mother, and St. John. Two years later, churchgoers began reporting that Our Lady of Sorrows' statue was moving its eyes, crying, and changing complexion. As word spread, miracles and healings multiplied. After a formal investigation, the Catholic bishop declared the miracles valid in 1734. A larger baroque church was built to accommodate the pilgrims, dedicated to the Sorrowful Mother of God and Saint Ulrich. Although the crowds and miracles dwindled in the late 1700s, the shrine still hosts four major pilgrimages annually: the Monday after Pentecost, the feasts of the Holy Cross on May 3 and September 14, and the veterans' pilgrimage on the last Saturday of October. In 1954, the Steinbach district of Legau municipality changed its name to Maria Steinbach in honor of the devotion to St. Mary of Sorrows there.Sources include:
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Also commemorated this date:
 | Maria Hilf, Sulz, Wienerwald, Austria. Painting placed over high altar, 1783. |
| Notre-Dame de Reinacker, Reutenbourg, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France. Chapel consecrated, 1407. |
| Notre Dame de la Croix, Marciac, Gers, Occitanie, France. Apparition, 1564, promised end to plague if chapel built. |
| Notre-Dame de Plout, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy. Chapel open for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, also on St. Anne's Day, July 26. |
| Madonna delle Grazie, Borutta, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. Statue in San Pietro di Sorres crowned, 2002. |
| Madonna degli Infermi, Francavilla Marittima, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy (Madonna of the Sick) |
| Santissima Maria della Fontana, Villa Castelli, Brindisi, Apulia, Italy (St. Mary of the Fountain) |
| Behoudenis der Kranken, Oostrum, Venray, Limburg, Netherlands (Salvation of the Sick). Statue crowned, 1884. |
| Patronka Ziemi Kutnowskiej, Glogowiec, Kutno, Lódz, Poland (Patron of Kutno Land). Icon crowned, 1975. Feast September 8. |
| Nossa Senhora de Nazaré, Nazaré, Leiria, Portugal (Our Lady of Nazareth). Knight saved from precipice vowed chapel, 1182. |
| Mother of God of Chernigov-Gethsemane, Sergiyev Posad, Sergiyevo-Posadsky, Moscow, Russia (September 1 old calendar) |
| Virgen de la Roca, Bayona la Real, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Monumental statue inaugurated, 1930. Romería August 15. |
| Virgen de la Piedad, Baza, Granada, Andalucia, Spain (Virgin of Compassion). Statue crowned, 1930. Fiesta September 8. |
| Virgen de El Paso, Alajeró, La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Statue processes from sanctuary to town. |
| L'Assomption de la Vierge, Châtillon, Delémont, Jura, Switzerland. Chapel blessed, 1825. |
| Azurovskaya Mother of God, Malatya, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey (Mother of God of the Azur River; September 1 old calendar) |