Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is a Roman Catholic title
of the Blessed Virgin Mary as represented in a celebrated 15th-century
Byzantine icon.
The icon has been in Rome since 1499 and is permanently
enshrined in the church of Sant' Alfonso di Liguori, where the official Novena
to Our Mother of Perpetual is prayed weekly. In the Eastern Orthodox Church,
this artistic iconography is known as the Virgin of the Passion or Theotokos of
the Passion due to the instruments of the Passion present on the image.
Due to the Redemptorist Priests, who had been appointed
as both custodians and missionaries of this icon by Pope Pius IX in 1865, the
image has become very popular among Roman Catholics in particular and has been
very much copied and reproduced. Modern reproductions are sometimes displayed
in homes, business establishments, and public transportation.
On 23 June 1867, the image was granted a Canonical
Coronation and its official recognition of the Marian icon under its present
title. The Redemptorist priests are the only religious order currently
entrusted by the Holy See to protect and propagate a Marian religious work of
art.
The feast day of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is
celebrated on June 27, with novena devotions held every Wednesday.
Source: Wikipedia
This postcard came from Lidka (8 June 2015)
Postcrossing. Snails have eaten some
parts of the postcard and I had to get Postcrossing to find the ID for me.
A note: The postcard indicates that this image (a copy) is
in the Church of St. Alphonse in Luxembourg.
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