Our Lady of Good Voyage Cathedral

Our Lady of Good Voyage is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It originated in seafaring communities of Portugal and Spain.[1] The devotion spread as sailors traveled the world.[2]

Background

The devotion to Mary under this title began in Ericeira, Portugal.[1] There, on August 15 each year, the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the fishing fleet is blessed and a procession of boats takes place.[1]

In 1889, the first church dedicated to Our Lady of Good Voyage in the United States opened in Gloucester, Massachusetts.[2][3] It was opened after a large number of Portuguese immigrants moved to Gloucester to work in the fishing industry.[2] There is also the Seaport Shrine, a chapel in Boston's Seaport District, dedicated to Our Lady of Good Voyage.[1] In the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, the cathedral is the Our Lady of Good Voyage Cathedral.

Statues of Our Lady of Good Voyage show the Virgin Mary holding Jesus in one arm and a ship in the other.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Our Lady of Good Voyage. Archdiocese of Boston. p. 2. "This booklet has been published through the generous donation of John B. Hynes, III, Managing Partner at Boston Global Investors, in honor and memory of his grandfather, Mayor John B. Hynes, his father, Jack Hynes, and his mother, Marie Kelly Hynes. Mayor Hines was instrumental in founding the original Our Lady of Good Voyage in 1952. His son Jack hoped that this new Shrine would perpetuate the true mission of his Catholic faith to the thousands of new residents of Boston's emerging Seaport.".
  2. 1 2 3 4 Our Lady of Good Voyage. Archdiocese of Boston. p. 3. "This booklet has been published through the generous donation of John B. Hynes, III, Managing Partner at Boston Global Investors, in honor and memory of his grandfather, Mayor John B. Hynes, is father, Jack Hynes, and his mother, Marie Kelly Hynes. Mayor Hines was instrumental in founding the original Our Lady of Good Voyage in 1952. His son Jack hoped that this new Shrine would perpetuate the true mission of his Catholic faith to the thousands of new residents of Boston's emerging Seaport.".
  3. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Our Lady of Good Voyage Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved December 24, 2013.


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