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Our Lady of Joy Canvas Painting CopyIrish Blessing Our Lady of Joy picture
The Irish Blessing Our Lady of Joy picture is a new unique oil on canvas painting of the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. A print copy of the painting is only available from A Blessed Call to Love. Our aim is to promote this image all over the world. The Seven Sorrows of Mary well known. We feel her Seven Joys could promoted at this time to venerate Our Lady even more. The Franciscan order have a lovely devotion to the joys of Mary called the Franciscan Crown.
The Franciscan historian, Father Luke Wadding (1588-1657) dates the origin of the Franciscan Crown to the year 1422. In 1442 an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary took place in Assisi, to a Franciscan novice named James. As a child, he had the custom of offering daily the Virgin Mary a crown of roses. When he entered the Friars Minor, he became distressed that he would no longer be able to offer this gift. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him to give him comfort and showed him another daily offering that he might do: to pray every day seven decades of Hail Marys, meditating between each decade on one of the seven joys that she had experienced in her life. Friar James began this devotion, but one day the Director of Novices saw him praying and an angel with him who was weaving a crown of roses, placing a lily of gold between each of the ten roses. When the novice had finished praying, the angel placed the crown upon him. The Director asked Friar James what this vision meant. After hearing the explanation, he told the other friars and soon this devotion spread throughout the Franciscan family.
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