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Holy Mary, mother of Jesus, Comforter of the afflicted, we the three
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Sainte Marie mere de JESUS Consolatrice des affliges, nous les trois Estats du Pays Dûche de
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Jesuits, who had initiated this Marian tradition, were dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. In 1778, the Jesuit church became the parish church was the tradition continued until 1796 when the pilgrims' chapel on the Glacis was destroyed by
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with the crescent moon at her feet. Indeed, in 1639 it was the first time that, to cope with the influx of pilgrims, the statue of the
Consolator was brought for a period of eight days to the Jesuit church inside the city. At the end of this week, during a solemn closing procession, the statue was
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Luxembourg related first to the plague, and the high mortality rate it inflicted on children, and secondly, the Thirty Years War: namely, the miracle of the resurrection of a dead child and a
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or "small markets", were traditionally organised to ensure pilgrims had somewhere to eat during their pilgrimage. Today it is primarily an event where young and old come together to eat, drink and buy various handcrafted items and other memorabilia at the 80 or so stalls on the
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Specially composed litanies and hymns, first in German, then also in
Luxembourgish, gave the Octave a new imprint since the end of the 19th century and give it an increasingly marked national dimension. In 1866, for the second centenary of the
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vous honorer toujours pour tele. Cepourquoy nous vous supplions tres humblement de nous recevoir en vostre protection et de nous assister au temps de guerre, peste et famine et en toutes nos necessites et duersites. Amen
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Every year, Luxembourg renews its faithfulness to Our Lady with the prayer of consecration used since the 17th century. The text of the election act of Mary as patroness of the country on 20 February 1678 is as follows:
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Afflicted, was elected the patroness of the
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The Grand Ducal Family joins the procession on foot. From the cathedral to the
Luxembourg City palace, the procession returns to the cathedral for prayers before another walkabout back to the city centre
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The text was signed in the Jesuit church by the three estates (clergy, nobility and citizens of the towns), and by the magistrates of the 15 cities and the three "Franchises" of the Duchy of
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which takes place within the octave of the Octave in the Notre-Dame de Luxembourg Cathedral. During the Pontifical High Mass, the Archbishop leads the renewal of the consecration to Notre-Dame.
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was restored and grow in pump and circumstance through the 19th century, especially through the participation of the participation of the royal family after the conversion to Catholicism of
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with its capital as Luxembourg city: as historian James Newcomer notes, "this veneration and observation gave still more character to Luxembourg City as the capital of the nation".
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honour always. That is why we beg you very humbly to take us into your protection and to assist us in time of war, pestilence and famine and in all our needs and varieties. Amen
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began with a Marian procession on the feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 1624. Students from the Jesuit college carried a wooden, 73 cm-high statue of the
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miraculous flood which protected the city from invasion, which ruined the plan of Frenchman Pierre Pillard to dynamite a breach through the walls of the city.
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in honour of Our Lady of Luxembourg invoked under the title of Our Lady of Consolation was published in order to encourage the popular devotion.
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