Virgin Mary - Lady of Lourdes - Silver icon on wood, locally gold plated - Mount Athos

Seriograph icon crafted in canvas on wood, with silver frame, locally gilded, with wooden casing.

With this icon you will receive a free stand.

Lady of Lourdes

In the city of Lourdes at the south-west of France, on February 11 1858, Bernadette Soubirou, a fourteen years old villager girl, had a first vision in a cave just outside the small town of Massabielle, of a "beautiful lady" wearing a white gown, white veil, light blue belt and a yellow rose in each of her legs. The "beautiful lady" became visible to the girl, 18 times, the last one by July 16 of that year. On March 25, on the sixteenth vision, the "lady" spoke to the Gasconic dialect only understood by Bernadette, with the words "I am the purely conceived".

The girl run and informed the vicar of the area, Abba Peyramal who understood that it was the Virgin Mary, the "lady" in her vision.

Four years later, on January 18 1862, in the name of the Church, the Pope decided that the Virgin Mary’s envisages were genuine. The icon of the Virgin Mary – as Bernadette visualized her – the Virgin Mary of Lourdes dressed in white, with a light blue belt, is the most famous icon of the Catholic hagiography, worshiping the Mother of the Christ.