Apr 27 - Virgin of Montserrat - Black Madonna - icon by Joan Cole. Happy Feast Day Our Lady

Apr 27 - “Virgin of Montserrat - Black Madonna” © icon by Joan Cole. Happy Feast Day Our Lady!

The whole of Montserrat is built around facilitating the worship of the Black Madonna in the Basilica. The Black Madonna was believed to have been carved in Jerusalem at the beginning of the religion. It is a wooden sculpture. It is one of the most famous Black Madonna statues in the world and in 1844 Pope Leo XIII declared the Virgin of Montserrat the patroness of Catalonia.

Her feast day is April 27.

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