The term ''Black Madonna'' or ''Black Virgin'' tends to refer to statues or paintings in Western
Christendom
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of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
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and the
Infant Jesus
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, where both figures are depicted with dark skin. The Black Madonna can be found both in
Catholic
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and
Orthodox
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countries.
The paintings are usually
icon
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s which are
Byzantine
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in origin or style, some of which were produced in 13th- or 14th-century Italy. Other examples from the Middle East, Caucasus or
Africa
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, mainly Egypt and Ethiopia, are even older. Statues are often made of wood but occasionally made of stone, painted, and up to tall. They fall into two main groups: free-standing upright figures or seated figures on a throne. There are about 400–500 Black Madonnas in Europe, depending on how they are classified. There are at least 180 ''Vierges Noires'' in Southern France alone, and there are hundreds of non-medieval copies as well. Some are in museums, but most are in churches or shrines and are venerated by believers. Some are associated with miracles and attract substantial numbers of pilgrims.
Black Madonnas come in different forms, and the speculations behind the reason for the dark hue of each individual icon or statue vary greatly and are not without controversy. Though some Madonnas were originally black or brown when they were made, others have simply turned darker due to factors like aging or candle smoke. Jungian scholar
Ean Begg
Ean Cochrane Macinnes Begg (1929 - 1 October 2018) was a Jungian analyst, writer, translator and broadcaster.
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has conducted a study into the potential pagan origins of the cult of the black Madonna and child. Another speculated cause for the dark-skinned depiction is due to pre-Christian deities being re-envisioned as the Madonna and child.
Studies and research
Research into the Black Madonna phenomenon is limited. Begg links the refrain from the Song of Solomon, ‘I am black, but I am beautiful’ to the Queen of Sheba. Recently, however, interest in this subject has gathered more momentum.
Important early studies of dark-skinned holy images in France were by
Camille Flammarion
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(1888), Marie Durand-Lefebvre (1937), Emile Saillens (1945), and Jacques Huynen (1972). The first notable study of the origin and meaning of the Black Madonnas in English appears to have been presented by Leonard Moss at a meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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on December 28, 1952. Moss broke the images into three categories: (1) dark brown or black Madonnas with physiognomy and skin pigmentation matching that of the indigenous population; (2) various art forms that have turned black as a result of certain physical factors such as deterioration of lead-based pigments, accumulated smoke from the use of votive candles, and accumulation of grime over the ages, and (3) residual category with no ready explanation. The Jungian scholar, San Begg published a study of Black Virgins and their possible pagan origins.
In the cathedral at
Chartres
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, there were two Black Madonnas: , a 1508 dark walnut copy of a 13th-century silver Madonna, standing atop a high pillar, surrounded by candles; and , a replica of an original destroyed during the French Revolution. Restoration work on the cathedral resulted in the painting of , to reflect an earlier 19th-century painted style, rendering the statue no longer a "Black Madonna".
Some scholars chose to investigate the significance of the dark-skinned complexion to pilgrims and worshipers rather than focusing on whether this depiction was intentional. By virtue of their presence, many Black Madonnas turn the shrines in which they are housed into revered pilgrimage sites.
Monique Scheer
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attributes the importance of the dark-skinned depiction to its connection with authenticity. The reason for this connection is the perceived age of the figures.
Algiers
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Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
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*Tsuruoka city, Yamagata prefecture: Tsuruoka Tenshudô Catholic Church features a black Madonna statue given by France during Meiji period
The Philippines
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Our Lady of Guidance
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Our Lady of Peñafrancia
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Tournai Cathedral
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Brno
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St Thomas's Abbey, Brno
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House of the Black Madonna
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Bouches-du-Rhône
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Aurillac
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Beaune
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Puy-de-Dôme
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Ain
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Chartres
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Eure-et-Loir
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Clermont-Ferrand
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Puy-de-Dôme
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Douvres-la-Délivrande
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Côtes-d'Armor
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Aisne
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, statue of 1848
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Le Havre
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gave the cathedral an ebony image of the Blessed Virgin clothed in gold brocade ( Notre-Dame du Puy). It was destroyed during the Revolution, but replaced at the Restoration with a copy that continues to be venerated.
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Aisne
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Bouches-du-Rhône
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Cantal
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(Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende)
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Alpes-Maritimes
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Meymac
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During the Hundred Years' War it was pillaged by Rodrigo de Villandrando.
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The commune lies just south of the Millevaches Plateau and north ...
Mont-Saint-Michel
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Savoie
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Quimper
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Finistère
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Puy-de-Dôme
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Rocamadour
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Réunion
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Roma
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Sara
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, the patron saint of the
Roma
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** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
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Aisne
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Bouches-du-Rhône
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Puy-de-Dôme
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Notre-Dame de la Daurade
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in Toulouse, France had housed the shrine of a Black Madonna. The original icon was stolen in the fifteenth century, and its first replacement was burned by Revolutionaries in 1799 on the
Place du Capitole
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. The icon presented today is an 1807 copy of the fifteenth century Madonna. Blackened by the hosts of candles, the second Madonna was known from the sixteenth century as Our Lady La Noire
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Vaison-la-Romaine
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Allier
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Altötting
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Bavaria
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Düsseldorf-Benrath
Benrath () is a quarter of Düsseldorf in the south of the city, part of Borough 9. It has been a part of Düsseldorf since 1929. Benrath has an area of , and 17,178 inhabitants (2020).
History
The name Benrath came from the "Knights of Benrode ...
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
Bavaria
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Mainau
Mainau also referred to as Mav(e)no(w), Maienowe (in 1242), Maienow (in 1357), Maienau, Mainowe (in 1394) and Mainaw (in 1580) is an island in Lake Constance (on the Southern shore of the Überlinger See near the city of Konstanz, Baden- ...
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Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
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Regensburg Cathedral
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Niederstotzingen
Niederstotzingen () is a small city in the Heidenheim (district), district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 17 km southeast of Heidenheim an der Brenz, Heidenheim, and 24 km northeast of Ulm. The ...
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Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
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Windhausen
Windhausen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony
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Wipperfürth
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History
The eldest ...
Vamos
Vamos (Greek: Βάμος) is a small town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform "Kallikratis" it is a municipal unit, part of the municipality of Apokoronas, serving as its hist ...
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Crete
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Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church
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Italy
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Biella
Biella (; pms, Biela; la, Bugella) is a city and '' comune'' in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, the capital of the province of the same name, with a population of 44,324 as of 31 December 2017. It is located about northeast of Turin a ...
sanctuary of Oropa
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Po ...
Casale Monferrato
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( Piedmont): Our Lady of Crea. In the hillside Sanctuary at Crea (Santuario di Crea), a cedar-wood figure, said to be one of three Black Virgins brought to Italy from the Holy Land c. 345 by St. Eusebius.
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Prepotto
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Gubbio
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History
The city's origins are very ancient. ...
, Italy: The Niger-Regin square, discovered carved in the cave of Sibilla Eugubina on Mount Ingino, is considered to be a word square form the "Black Queen". Seemingly of Neo-Templar origin, it is dated between 1600–1800 CE, was discovered in 2003, and destroyed by vandalism in 2012.
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Basilica della Santa Casa
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Pescasseroli
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A summer and winter resort, it is also the location of the Abruzzo National Park, nestled in the heart of the Monti ...
Positano
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Climate
The climate of Positano is very mild, of the Mediterrane ...
): Located in the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the story of how it got there—sailors shouting "Posa, posa!" ("Put it down, put it down!")—gave the town its name.
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San Severo
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Seminara ''For people with the surname, see Seminara (surname).''
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S ...
Tindari
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The monument ...
Torre Annunziata
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History
The city was destroyed in the Vesuvius ...
Santa Maria della Salute
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It stands on the na ...
Vitina
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Esch-sur-Sûre
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Kališta
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Demographics
The village of Kališta is inhabited by Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians and speak the Tosk Albanian dialect, "Ladorisht ...
Ħamrun
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The people
The townspeople are traditionally known as ''Tas-Sikkina'' (literally meaning 'of the knife' or 'those who carry a knife') or as '' ...
Malta
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by a merchant in the year
1630
Events
January–March
* January 2 – A shoemaker in Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy.
* January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers ...
, depicting a statue found in Atocha, a parish in Madrid, Spain, and widely known as '' Il-Madonna tas-Samra''. (This can mean 'tanned Madonna', 'brown Madonna', or 'Madonna of Samaria'.)
Poland
* Częstochowa:
Our Lady of Czestochowa
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* Our, Jura, a commune in France
* Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), a government utility regulato ...
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National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
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Częstochowa
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. A second shrine to Our Lady of Częstochowa is located near
Eureka, Missouri
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** In Israel there are two reproductions of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa: One in St. Peter's Church in Tel Aviv, and another in the
Abbey of the Dormition
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Between ...
Oeste Subregion
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Cacica
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Bucuresti
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Kostroma Oblast
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Theotokos of St. Theodore
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Apatin
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Vojvodina
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Andújar
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Chipiona
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Rule of Saint Augustine
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The rule, developed ...
Province of Cáceres
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Province of Cáceres
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura
The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe was the most important Marian shrine in the medieval kingdom of Castile. The image is enshrined in the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, in today's province of Cáceres in the Extremadura autonomous ...
Community of Madrid
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Lluc
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Balearic Islands
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Monistrol de Montserrat
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Virgin of Montserrat
Our Lady of Montserrat or the Virgin of Montserrat ( ca, Mare de Déu de Montserrat) is a Marian title associated with a statue of the Madonna and Child venerated at the Santa Maria de Montserrat monastery on the Montserrat Mountain in Catalonia ...
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Santa Maria de Montserrat
Santa Maria de Montserrat () is an abbey of the Order of Saint Benedict located on the mountain of Montserrat in Monistrol de Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain. It is notable for enshrining the image of the Virgin of Montserrat. The monastery was fo ...
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Ponferrada
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Province of León
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About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the ...
Province of Salamanca
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Santiago de Compostela
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Virgin of Candelaria
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Province of Toledo
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Torreciudad
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* Skee Kyrka Bohuslän former Norwegian and Danish province. Black madonna with beheaded chil
Canton of Schwyz
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** In the United States, a reproduction of Our Lady of the Hermits was gifted to the
St. Meinrad Archabbey
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located in St. Meinrad, Indiana
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Sonogno
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, Valle Verzasca (
Canton of Ticino
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Canton of Zürich
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Canton of Solothurn
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His ...
Ascona
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Ascona ( lmo, label= Ticinese, Scona ) is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
It is located on the shore of Lake Maggiore.
The town is a popular tourist destination and holds the year ...
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Canton of Ticino
Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...
Canton of Ticino
Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...
Our Lady of Willesden
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Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Nottingham
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Religion
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* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chri ...
Cartago Province
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Geography
It is located in the central part ...
Regla
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Havana Province
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Tepeyac
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Siparia
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Our Lady of Montserrat
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Our Lady of Ferguson
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South America
Brazil
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Aparecida
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, São Paulo: Our Lady of Aparecida or Our Lady Appeared (Nossa Senhora Aparecida or Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida) in the
Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida
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Chile
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Andacollo
Andacollo () is a city and commune in the Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile.
History
Andacollo is a copper and gold mining city located in the mountains of the Small North (El Norte Chico) in Chile. It was founded in 1891.
Several leg ...
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Elqui Province
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Geography and demography
According to the 2012 census by the National Statistics Institute (''INE'' ...
Black Nazarene
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Mariology
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Canon
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** Western can ...
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New Brunswick, Canada
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130702165321/http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic30-1-2/madonna.html Sciorra, Joseph. "The Black Madonna of Thirteenth Street", ''Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore'', Vol. 30, Spring-Summer 2004]
* Black Madonna in modern art - see Black Madonna by BystreetSky Artist https://web.archive.org/web/20180802193137/https://www.bystreetsky.com/bystreetsky-art?lightbox=dataItem-j74w6ola
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