Our Lady of Perpetual Help

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a widely venerated Marian title and icon in the Catholic Church, associated with the Virgin Mary’s continual aid and protection for the faithful.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic devotion
Marian icon
Marian title
artStyle Cretan school icon
associatedWith Child Jesus
Virgin Mary
category Icons of the Virgin Mary
Marian devotions
Titles of Mary in Catholicism
custodianship Redemptorists
depicts Gabriel
surface form: Archangel Gabriel

Saint Michael
surface form: Archangel Michael

Madonna and Child
surface form: Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus
devotionalPractice novena
processions
special Masses
feastDay 27 June
hasTitleVariant Our Lady of Perpetual Help self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mother of Perpetual Succour

Our Lady of Perpetual Help self-linksurface differs
surface form: Our Mother of Perpetual Help
iconographicType Byzantine icon
Hodegetria type icon
invokedFor family needs
healing
help in difficulties
protection from danger
languageVariant Latin: Mater de Perpetuo Succursu
liturgicalCalendar Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
liturgicalRank optional memorial in the Roman Rite
majorShrine Church of Sant’Alfonso di Liguori all’Esquilino
majorShrineLocation Rome
originRegion Eastern Mediterranean
papalApprovalBy Pope Pius IX
papalApprovalType public veneration of the icon
papalInstruction Pope Pius IX asked the Redemptorists to make her known throughout the world
Icons of the Theotokos
surface form: Pope Pius IX entrusted the icon to the Redemptorists
popularIn Italy
Latin America
Philippines
United States of America
surface form: United States
religiousTradition Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Catholic Church

Eastern Catholic Churches
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Orthodox Church
symbolism Mary’s continual aid and protection
Our Lady of Needs
surface form: Mother of the poor

comfort of the afflicted
help of the sick
refuge of sinners
veneratedAs title of the Virgin Mary

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Catholic Church in Haiti hasDevotion Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Nossa Senhora do Socorro namedAfter Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Our Lady of Perpetual Help hasTitleVariant Our Lady of Perpetual Help self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Our Lady of Perpetual Help hasTitleVariant Our Lady of Perpetual Help self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mother of Perpetual Succour
Redemptorists hasPatron Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Redemptorists hasSpecialDevotionTo Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer hasPatron Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Our Lady usedAsQualifierIn Our Lady of Perpetual Help