Optional Memorial
Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
- Feast day
- August 05
Life
This memorial celebrates the dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, one of Rome's four major papal basilicas and among the oldest churches in the West dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Built on the Esquiline Hill and rebuilt by Pope Sixtus III after the Council of Ephesus proclaimed Mary the Mother of God in 431, it is linked by tradition to a miraculous summer snowfall marking its site.
The saint of the day, every day
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