Today is the Feast Day of Evangelist St. Luke. She is carved from dark Philippine hardwood. Salus Populi Romani - Protectress of the Roman People by M. Jean Frisk (from the Marian Library: campus.udayton.edu) The miraculous image, Protectress of the Roman People, is perhaps the best loved and honored Marian icon in Rome, Italy. Since then the image has become the center of Marian devotion in the Eternal City. March 29, 2020 at 6:38 am Be with us O Mary along the way – Guide every step we take. 5. Pope Francis prays in front of the Marian icon "Salus Populi Romani" at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome March 15, 2020. Our Lady of Regla is venerated at the Our Lady of the Rule Church in Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines. John F Kippley. 6. He visits her icon on major Marian feast days, and makes a point to stop in for a prayer both before and after his international Apostolic Journeys. This unique holy card features Our Lady of Romanus also known as Salus Populi Romani or Protectoress and Health of the Roman People. Therefore we may believe that the icon of the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, an exact digital copy from the original miraculous image, is an icon similar to the icon of “Salus Populi Romani”, that is also a copy of an original miraculous image. The Madonna is a copy of the original in Chipiona, Spain. Reply. [5] Eternal happiness with the Holy Trinity, Our Lady, the angels and saints in heaven. Salus Populi Romani, meaning Protectress (literally salvation or health of the Roman People) is the title given in the 19th century to the Byzantine icon of the Madonna and Child, reputed to date to Early Christian times, in the Borghese or Pauline Chapel of the 5th … Our Lady, Salus Populi Romani, Ora pro nobis! Our Lady of Victory: when the Rosary beat the Turks at Lepanto On 7 October 1571, Don John of Austria, son of the Emperor Charles V, commanding the navies of the Pope and the Emperor, together with the navies of Spain and Venice, defeated a much larger Turkish navy off the coast of Greece at a place now called Naupactos. According to legend, the miraculous icon was brought to Siluva from Rome in 1457 as a gift to Lithuanian nobleman Petras Gedgaudas. Reply. It is located in the Cappella Paolina of Saint… Pope Francis offered Sunday Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major to celebrate the restoration of the beloved Marian icon Salus Populi Romani (Mary, … Salus Populi Romani (Protectress, or more literally health or salvation, of the Roman People) is a Roman Catholic title associated with the venerated image of the Virgin Mary in Rome.This Byzantine icon of the Madonna and Christ Child holding a Gospel book is kept in the Borghese (Pauline) Chapel of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. The icon is painted in the Our Lady of the Way style, and is similar to the famous Madonna Salus Populi Romani. In 593 Pope St. Gregory the Great carried the icon in procession to stop a plague. An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due to … Pope Francis’ special devotion to Our Lady Salus Populi Romani is well-known. 6. Her feast is celebrated on November 21. Our Lady granted the pr ayers of the Holy Father and the people of Rome. The holy card features a Byzantine icon image of Mary holding the Christ Child who is said to be holding a Gospel book. Dr.Cajetan Coelho. INDULGENCES. It was to this same Church that Pope Francis went in pilgrimage yesterday to pray before Salus Populi Romani to protect Rome, Italy and the rest of the world. Our Lady's special protection from temptations and sin, and her intercession in life and death; and. Special protection from temptations and sin, and her intercession in life and death ;.... 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