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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