The History of the Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help

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Some of the countries which the Mother of Perpetual Help has been

spread.

‘The Rock Church’ - Saint Louis

Saint Michael’s - Chicago

The Mission Church - Boston

Vietnamese (California) – Radio & Magazine

Canada - OMPH TV devotions (every Wednesday night) for the last 12 years

on Vision TV

Fr. Ray Corriveau CSsR Redemptorist Toronto, Ontario

Program reaches 60,000 – 70,000 People a week.

Saint Patrick’s Church, Toronto - Canada

Église Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours - Canada

Vietnam - Saigon

Baclaran, Manila - Philippines.

Rustenburg – South Africa

South America – Argentina, Colombia,

Ecuador, Chile & Brazil.

Limerick, Galway, Belfast - Ireland.

15,000 – 20,000 People a day attend the Clonard Novena in Belfast (Our Lady of Perpetual Help.)Thousands watch each session streamed (live) throughout the world by

web camera. Which people can access in any country throughout the world 24 hours a day.

The Journey of the Icon

Russian icon

representing the

legend of the first

icon of the Mother of God. St

Luke (assisted

by an angel) is painting

the Virgin Mary.

Mount Athos, Greece.

A FORMULA FOR THE A FORMULA FOR THE CONSECRATION OF AN ICON CONSECRATION OF AN ICON

WRITER WRITER (FROM MOUNT ATHOS)(FROM MOUNT ATHOS)

THOU WHO HAST SO THOU WHO HAST SO ADMIRABLY IMPRINTED THY ADMIRABLY IMPRINTED THY FEATURES ON THE CLOTH FEATURES ON THE CLOTH SENT TO KING ABGAR OF SENT TO KING ABGAR OF

EDESSA, AND HAST SO EDESSA, AND HAST SO WONDERFULLY INSPIRED WONDERFULLY INSPIRED LUKE, THY EVANGELIST:LUKE, THY EVANGELIST:

ENLIGHTEN MY SOUL AND ENLIGHTEN MY SOUL AND THAT OF THY SERVANT; THAT OF THY SERVANT;

GUIDE HER/HIS HAND THAT GUIDE HER/HIS HAND THAT HE/SHE MAY REPRODUCE HE/SHE MAY REPRODUCE THY FEATURES, THOSE OF THY FEATURES, THOSE OF THE HOLY VIRGIN AND ALL THE HOLY VIRGIN AND ALL

THY SAINTS, FOR THE THY SAINTS, FOR THE GLORY AND PEACE OF GLORY AND PEACE OF

HOLY CHURCH.HOLY CHURCH.

SPARE THEM FROM SPARE THEM FROM TEMPTATION AND TEMPTATION AND

DIABOLICAL DIABOLICAL IMAGINATIONS IN IMAGINATIONS IN THE NAME OF THY THE NAME OF THY MOTHER, ST. LUKE MOTHER, ST. LUKE

AND ALL THE AND ALL THE SAINTS. AMENSAINTS. AMEN

The Mother and child, 3rd Century Fresco, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome.

1700 Moscow School

The Madonna of Comfort 5th

Century. The face of the Hodegetria icon will be a key influence in later

Marian iconography.

Hand of Our Mother of Perpetual

Help Hodegetria = the one who shows the

WAY.

Virgin of the Passion

and Tenderness

Vladimir Mother of God

The Virgin Eleousa = Tenderness and Sweet Kiss

Mother of God

“Most Honorable”

14th Century – Slavic School

The Virgin of the

Passion, 17th

Century.

Our Lady of Perpetual

Assistance – Syria

Monastery 19th Century

(unknown icongapher)

Left angel from Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance – Syria.

Left angel from Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Right angel from Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance – Syria.

Right angel from Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Black and white

photograph prior to the

restoration of the icon in

1866.

The icon of Our Mother of

Perpetual Help showing the crowns

and precious stones before

the 1994.

Overlay (watch closely)

Mother of Perpetual

Help (present day

restored icon).

Elements of the Icon

Hand of Our Mother of Perpetual

Help – Hodegetria = the one who shows the

WAY.

Mother of Perpetual

Help

Archangel Michael

(left Angel)

Archangel Gabriel (right Angel)

Virgin of the Passion

1579Italian School

Icon Prayer.

Lord Jesus Christ,You gave us your own Mother Mary, Whose wonderful image we venerate, to be our Mother ever ready to help us. Grant us, we pray,That we who continually seek her motherly aid, may be found worthy to enjoy increasingly the fruit of our redemption.

You who reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

The first picture is the PH Shrine in St. Alphonsus Church, New Orleans; the second picture is the silver 1925 panel of OMPH on the Sacred Reliquary of Bl. F.X. Seelos, crafted in

Italy in the year 2000.

Mother of Perpetual Help

Icon.

Mother of Perpetual Help @ Subway Station

in Colombia.

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