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 marian
anniversaries october
October 10
Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
A cigar spark in a dry goods store ignited the Baltimore fire of 1904,
which destroyed over a thousand buildings in its 30-hour rampage. Early
on, firefighters realized they couldn't stop the conflagration by the
usual means, so they tried dynamiting buildings in its path. As the flames
headed for another dry goods store, owner Thomas O'Neill refused to have
his premises blown up. The story goes that he went for divine help to a
Carmelite convent, and after the nuns prayed, the wind turned just as the
flames licked the south wall of his store. His business was saved.
Meanwhile the dynamite only made the situation worse, setting more
buildings ablaze while the fire raged on. When O'Neill died a wealthy man
in 1919, he left most of his fortune to the Catholic Diocese of Baltimore
for construction of a new cathedral. But ground wasn't broken for it until
October 10, 1954—one day before Pope Pius XII instituted the new
feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen. On that feast day, May 31, 1955,
Archbishop Francis Keough presided over the laying of the Cathedral's
cornerstone. The new Cathedral of Mary Our Queen was finally dedicated in
1959.
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Sources:
 | The Cathedral's website, www.cathedralofmary.org. |
| Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikimedia.org (photo of carving over main entrance) |
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Also commemorated this date:
| Notre-Dame du Pont, Bredon, Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (Our Lady of
the Bridge). Chapel founded, 1623. |
| Mariä Himmelfahrt, Sankt Märgen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg,
Germany (Mary's Assumption). Miraculous statue dating from 1100 returned to
monastery church in Black Forest October 10, 1723. Pilgrimage second Sunday in
October. |
| Koratty Muthy, Koratty, Mambra, Thrissur District,
Kerala, India. Annual feast, weekend after
October 10 and weekend following. |
| Goa Maria Kaliori, Kaliori, Kalibagor, Banyumas, Central Java,
Indonesia (Mary Grotto). Pope John Paul II blessed statue, 1989. |
| Madonna della Stella, Ivrea, Torino, Piedmont, Italy (Madonna of the Star). Fresco crowned,
1954. Festa last Sunday in August. |
| Beata Vergine Maria, Gallivaggio, Sondrio, Como, Lombardy, Italy.
Apparition, 1492. |
| Madonna della Scala, Rome, Italy (Madonna of the Stair). Painting crowned, 1647. |
| Selvrouw, Sterre der Zee, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands (Our Lady, Star
of the Sea). Feast day of 1400s image, moved to Assumption Church October 10,
1837. Procession Easter Monday. |
| Virgen de la Soterraña, Olmedo, Valladolid, Castile and Léon, Spain
(Virgin of the Underground). Statue crowned, 1933. |
| Virgen de las Injurias, Callosa d'en Sarrià, Marina Baixa, Alicante,
Valencia, Spain. Statue crowned, 1954. |
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