| The Art and Liturgical Environment Committee (ALEC) has been studying the names of Mary and has added one of Mary's titles to our Chapel. The chapel that we use for daily mass, weddings and funerals is dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God. She is Our Lady, the Queen of the Americas. Mary is our model of faith and charity for all. With the efforts of Peter Ruocchio of Ruocchio Designs and Chris Carver we now have a designation at the threshold to the chapel. Mary and America
In 1531 Mary, the Mother of God, appeared to Native American Juan Diego in Mexico. She asked for a church. Devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe developed and in 1737 Our Lady of Guadalupe was named Patroness of the City of Mexico. Almost 2 centuries later Pope Pius X made her Patroness of all Latin American Countries in 1910. In 1945 Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Virgin of Guadalupe the Empress of America and put under her powerful patronage the purity and the integrity of the holy faith in the whole American continent. Sixteen years later, 1961, Pope John XXIII, called her the Celestial Missionary of the New World and the Mother and Patroness of America. In 1979 Pope John Paul II, raised a fervent prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe calling her Mother of the Americas."
Synodus Episcoporum Bulletin Dec 1997
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