Question about Our Lady of the Snows

  • Thread starter Thread starter AnneElizabeth
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
A

AnneElizabeth

Guest
I hope this fits this section of the forums… please excuse me if it doesn’t and Mod’s please move it to the appropriate place if it isn’t. Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone knows why someone would pray to Our Lady of The Snows… Is there a particular patronage or idea (request) in praying to her? I tried to look it up but did not find much at all. At least, not about why someone would invoke this title of Our Lady.

I’m not someone who understands the different titles of Our Lady… its kind of confusing to me, but this one in particular has stumped me. I know the history behind it, I just don’t know why someone would specifically pray to Our Lady of the Snows… is there a particular devotion and reason for that devotion? (just like some people pray to St. Anthony for lost items, some to St. Joseph for a spouse, etc… “patronage”)

Thank you to all for any replies! I look forward to any answers!
 
In its origin, it goes back to the story of a miraculous fall of snow in Rome. It was the outline of a church. The evening before, the Blessed Virgin appeared in a dream, the old tradition goes, to a wealthy couple and to the pope asking that a church be built where the miraculous snowfall would be found.

That is the church we know today as Saint Mary Major on Rome’s Esquiline Hill.

The miraculous snowfall has long been commemorated with a shower of flower petals from the interior roof of the basilica on the anniversary…August 5.

This more familiar title is used in many places. There is a lovely shrine in Illinois. Not surprisingly, it is charmingly used in Canada and in the Arctic.

vatican.va/various/basiliche/sm_maggiore/en/storia/introduzione.htm

snows.org/about-us/shrine-history/
 
Don_Ruggero said:
In its origin, it goes back to the story of a miraculous fall of snow in Rome. It was the outline of a church. The evening before, the Blessed Virgin appeared in a dream, the old tradition goes, to a wealthy couple and to the pope asking that a church be built where the miraculous snowfall would be found.

That is the church we know today as Saint Mary Major on Rome’s Esquiline Hill.

The miraculous snowfall has long been commemorated with a shower of flower petals from the interior roof of the basilica on the anniversary…August 5.

This more familiar title is used in many places. There is a lovely shrine in Illinois. Not surprisingly, it is charmingly used in Canada and in the Arctic.

vatican.va/various/basiliche/sm_maggiore/en/storia/introduzione.htm

snows.org/about-us/shrine-history/
Click to expand...
I have a friend at church who took her mother to the shrine in Illinois. She said it was beautiful.
Thank you for explaing about the Our Lady of the Snows. I did not know the origin either.
 
We go to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows every year for their Way of Lights Christmas light display. It’s a really neat place. I actually never knew the story behind the title though.
 
Allegra said:
We go to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows every year for their Way of Lights Christmas light display. It’s a really neat place. I actually never knew the story behind the title though.
Click to expand...
I hope to make a journey there someday too.
 
Our Lady of the Snows (August 5) is our Protector against anything that is weather related: hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, flood, torrential rains, etc.

Hope this helps.

Luz Maria
 
Luz_Maria said:
Our Lady of the Snows (August 5) is our Protector against anything that is weather related: hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, flood, torrential rains, etc.

Hope this helps.

Luz Maria
Click to expand...
Thank you, it does, immensely, as that was my question. Same goes to pianistclare too.
 
Well . . . Our Lady of the Snows (Nuestra Sra. de las Nieves) is well known in Latin America and Spain.
 
Luz_Maria said:
Well . . . Our Lady of the Snows (Nuestra Sra. de las Nieves) is well known in Latin America and Spain.
Click to expand...
In both France and Quebec, the title is Notre Dame des Neiges.

There is a very famous Trappist Abbey with this title in France. It is in the Diocese of Viviers
 
Luz_Maria said:
Our Lady of the Snows (August 5) is our Protector against anything that is weather related: hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, flood, torrential rains, etc.

Hope this helps.

Luz Maria
Click to expand...
thank you Luz.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I have a friend at church who took her mother to the shrine in Illinois. She said it was beautiful.
Thank you for explaing about the Our Lady of the Snows. I did not know the origin either.
Click to expand...
I stopped at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows while traveling this summer. It is a very beautiful tranquil place with many areas for prayer.
 
7_Sorrows said:
click the 2nd link in post 3. Illinois.
Click to expand...
According to the rest of post 3 it has its origins in Rome and is known in many parts of the world.

Yes, there is also a shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois.
 
drforjc said:
According to the rest of post 3 it has its origins in Rome and is known in many parts of the world.

Yes, there is also a shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois.
Click to expand...
yes. I thought she was asking about the shrine here people had posted about that they visited. so I was clarifying it is in Illinois.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top