Our Lady of Good Deliverance

Neuilly-sur-Seine,  France (14th c.)

 

Since the 1000s, the Church of Saint-Etienne-des-Grés in  the old Latin Quarter of Paris  had a large confraternity and chapel to Our Lady of Good  Deliverance, where, across the centuries, pilgrims  sought her help with various sufferings. In 1790, the  revolutionary government closed the Churchmof Saint- Etienne-des-Grés and the church's furnishings went up for sale. A countess, Madame de Carignan Saint  Maurice, brought the statue back to Paris. The following  year, St.-Etienne’s was destroyed. In 1793, the countess went to prison, where she met the Sisters of St. Thomas of Villanova. She gave them the statue  and it was installed in the  Sisters’ chapel in Paris now moved to the suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.

 

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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill

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