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Shrine in New Orleans has what may be Nation's Oldest image of Blessed Virgin ... Litany of Our Lady of Prompt Succor ... It is under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor ("succor" means "aid" or "help"), and the accounts of how quickly the Blessed Mother has granted requests under this title--even truly major requests-
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Our Lady of Prompt Succor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Our Lady of Prompt Succor is a religious title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, by the Roman Catholic Church. It refers to a statue of the Madonna kept in a shrine in New Orlean...
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Our Lady of Prompt Succor; NOTE: The above image is the Spanish, more elaborate version of Our Lady of Prompt Succor as we do not have a suitably large enough image of the French one. We have provided a tiny full length image in the presentation below. Mary's help has been sought from the shrine ever since, both in time...
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Chapel, and from that time the homage and veneration offered to Mary under the title of "OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR" has been constantly growing in our city and state and spreading far and wide allover the United States.
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New Orleans, Louisiana ... Mother Saint Michel brought a personal devotion to Mary under this title to the Ursuline convent in New Orleans when she arrived in 1810. The seemingly miraculous victory of the Americans over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 confirmed ... Source: Francis Beauchesne Thornton,
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOURS ... Alumna of the Month ... OLPS Shrine...
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So another friend send me some information on a Shrine to Our Lady of Prompt Succor in New Orleans, and invited me there. New Orleans is a place I've actually never been to, but wanted to ever since reading Evangeline years ago.
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