Maria Latitia
Maria Lätitia ( Latin lætitia , 'joy') was a Catholic festival of the Roman Catholic Church on July 5th. It was reminiscent of the “seven joys of Mary” and thus formed the opposite pole to the memory of Mary's sorrows .
history
The festival was already celebrated in the Middle Ages. One of the first known traditions is the writing Los VII gauz da nostra dona ( The Seven Joys of Our Lady ) by Pope Clement IV , written in 1265. In 1906, Pope Pius X added the festival, which was particularly popular in the Franciscan order, to the Roman Catholic calendar Church on. Today, however, it has been deleted from the festival calendar.
The seven joys of Mary
The seven joys of Mary are:
- the Annunciation
- the visitation
- the birth of Jesus
- the adoration of the wise
- the finding of the twelve year old Jesus in the temple
- the resurrection of Jesus
- the bodily assumption into heaven
See also
- The Bellwald parish church , built in 1698, is dedicated to the patronage of the seven joys of Mary.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints: Maria - Lätitia - seven joys of Mary, accessed on December 13, 2012