Mother Thrice Admirable
Ingolstadt, Germany (1604)
On April 6, 1604, at the Jesuit College of the Catholic University in Ingolstadt, the devotional Society Colloquium Marianum was chanting the litany of Loreto in the chapel, before a copy of the ancient icon Salus Populi Romani (Health of the Roman People).
The group's founder, Fr. Jakob Rem, saw a vision of the Mother of God, who indicated that her favorite title from the Litany was Mater Admirabilis. As the cantor sung that invocation, the vision disappeared, and Father Rem asked him to repeat it twice more.
When the reason for the odd repetition became known, the Colloquium began repeating that title three times whenever they sang the Litany and calling the Ingolstadt icon Mother Thrice Admirable.
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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill
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