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1.
In the year 1449, some of the principal gold smiths of Paris began to give the May-pole to the Church of Our Lady.—(Da Breuil, Antiquites de Paris, liv. i.) 

2.
Our Lady of Oviedo, in Spain, where they possess some of the Blessed Virgin's hair.—(Balingham on the Calendar.)

3.
Apparition of Our Lady to the Blessed Mary Razzi, of the order of St. Dominic, in the year 1597.—(Balingham on the Calendar.)

4.
Our Lady of Succor, three leagues from Caen, in Normandy. Every year a solemn procession is made to this chapel—(Triple Couronne, n. 51.)

5.
Our Lady, on the Mount of Olives, witnesses the Ascension of Our Lord, and then returns to Jerusalem, to retire into the upper room with the apostles.—(Acts i.)

6.
Oar Lady of Miracles, in the Church of Our Lady of Peace, at Rome. It is related, that in the year 1483, a man who had lost his money by gaming, after blaspheming this picture, gave it four stabs with a dagger, and that it bled so copiously that the miracle was at once divulged all over the city. This picture is still preserved in the Church of Our Lady of Peace, where it is to be seen at the high altar, set in marble.—(Gabriel Pennotti, History of the Canons Regular, lib. iii., c. 33, § 3.)

7.
Our Lady of Haut, in Hainanlt, where is seen one of the three little statues of the Blessed Virgin which St. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew II., King of Hungary, had religiously honored, and which she left by will to her holy daughter Sophia, who gave it to the church of Haut, in the year 1267. Several miracles have been since wrought by it.—(Justus Lipsius, History of Our Lady of Hal, o. 3.)

8.
In the year 1203, the learned Justus Lipsius gave his silver pen to the Church of Our Lady of Haut, in Hainault, where it is still seen hanging before the high altar.— See his Life.)

9.
Our Lady of Loretto, in the March of Ancona, in Italy. This chapel is the house of Nazareth, where the mystery of the Redemption was announced.—(Tnrselini, History of Loretto, lib. i„ c. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10.)

10.
Dedication of the city of Constantinople to Our Lady, by Constantine the Great, under the patriarch Alexander.—(Nicephorns, lib. viii., c. 26.) Our Lady of Saussaie, near Paris. The church of his Benedictine priory was dedicated to Our Lady, in the year 1305, by Pope Clement V.

11.
Apparition of Our Lady to St. Philip Neri, whom she healed of a serious malady, in the year 1594.—(See his Life.)

12.
Our Lady of Virtues, at Aubervillera, near Paris. This image has wrought so many miracles in this church, that it is called Our Lady of Virtues, though it is dedicated to St. Christopher.— (Du Brenil, lib. iv.)

13.
Dedication of Our Lady of Martyrs, called the Rotnuda, at Rome, by Boniface IV., in. the year 608. This temple wag called the Pantheon, because it was dedicated to all the gods of paganism. —(Beda, lib. ii„ History of England.)

14.
Dedication of Our .Lady of Noyon, by Hardouin, thirty-seventh bishop of the same city, in the year 998.—(Chronicon Annoniae, t. iii.)

15.
Descent of the Holy Ghost upon Our Lady and the apostles, in the year 34 of our Lord and the forty-eighth of the age of the Virgin.—(Christopher a Castro, Historia Virginis.)

16.
Apparition of Our Lady to St. Catharine of Alexandria, whose body was discovered on the 13th of this month, on Mount Sinai, in consequence of a revelation, which the Queen, of heaven gave.—(See her Life.)

17.
Our Lady of Tears, in the duchy of Spoletto, in Italy. It is said that this picture, painted on a wall, shed many tears in the year 1494.—(Gabriel Pennotus) lib. iii., Historia Tripartita, c. 34.)

18.
Dedication of Our Lady of Bonport, of the Cistercian order, near the Pont de l'Arche, in the diocess of Evreux. This abbey was founded by Richard Coeur de Lion, on the 11th of March, in the year 1190.—(Gallia Christiana, t. iv.)

19.
Dedication of Our Lady of Flines, near Douay, by Peter, Archbishop of Rheims, in the year 1279. This abbey of nuns, of the order of Citeaux, was given to St. Bernard, by Margaret de Dampierre, in the year 1234.—(Chronicon Fliniense.)

20.
Dedication of the church of La Ferte, in the diocese of Chalons, in Burgundy, in honor of Our Lady. This abbey, the eldest daughter of Citeanx, was founded in the year 1113 by Savaric and William, Counts of Chalons.—(Ex Archiviis Abbatis Firmitatis.)

21.
Our Lady of Sweat, at Salerno, in Italy. It is said that this Madonna sweated blood and water in the year 1611, as a presage of a great conflagration which happened on the following day.—(P. Spinelli, Tractatus de exemplis et miraculis, last chapter.)

22.
Our Lady of Monte Vergine, near Naples. This image preserved from the flames the monastery and church consecrated in her honor.—(Ibid.)

23.
Our Lady of Miracles, at St. Omer's, where a glove and some portion of the hair of the Blessed Virgin are preserved.—(Chronicon Bertinense.)

24.
Gregory XV., in the year 1622, issues a decree, forbidding any to uphold opinions adverse to the Immaculate Conception. The same decree forbids the use in the mass or office of any other term than that of Conception.—(Balingham on the Caledar.)

25.
Our Lady the New, at Jerusalem, built by the Emperor Justinian, in the year 530.— Procopius, de (Edific. imperatoris Justiniani.)

26.
Dedication of Our Lady of Vancelles, in the diocese of Cambray, by Samson, Archbishop of Rheims. This abbey, of the order of Citeaux, was founded in the year 1132.—(Cistercian Chronicle.)

27.
Dedication of Our Lady of Naples, called St. Mary Major, by Pope John II., in the year 533. A picture of the Blessed Virgin, painted by St. Luke, was carefully preserved in this church.—(Scliraderus, lib. ii.)

28.
Feast of relic? of Our Lady, at Venice, where are exposed to the veneration of the faithful, portions of the robe of the Blessed Virgin, of her mantle, veil, and girdle.— History of the Relics published at Venice.)

29.
Feast of Our Lady des Ardents, at Arras; a wax candle is kept in the cathedral of Arras, which is held to have been brought thither by Our Lady, in the year 1095.— Jacobus Meyer in Annals of Flanders, ann. 1095.)

30.
Dedication of the church of Monte Vergine, near Naples., built in the year 1126, by St. William, founder of the order of Monte Vergine, and repaired in the year 1519.—(John Juvenal, lib. vii., de Antiquitatibus, c. 3.)

31.
Our Lady of Dolours, in the Church of St. Gervase, at Paris. This image which was at the corner of des Rosiers Street, was mutilated by a ~, in the year 1528 ; Francis I. had it solemnly carried to St. Gervase, and he ordered a statue to be made of silver gilt, which, he himself set up in the place of the first. This statue was stolen in the year 1545, and another of stone was substituted for it, which always retained the name of Our Lady of Silver.—(Du Brenil, Theatre des Antiquites, lib. iii.)