THE SHRINE OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE

Canonical Coronation granted by Pope Pius XII in October 11, 1954. Feast of the Queenship of Mary, accompanied by his Papal bull Ad Reginam Caeli.

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Page 8, 9th December 1939

THE STORY OF THE SHRINE OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE By DOMINIC UTLEY ROBERT LASSELS, Gent., who in the seventeenth century travelled through Italy "as Tutor to several of the English Nobility and Gentry" writes in A Compleat Journey through Italy, about his visit to the Borghese Chapel "in St. Mary Majors Church," describing the altar there as "a very neat contrivance and of as rich materials. Four great Pillars of Jaspar pollish 'd, adorned with Capitels and bases of Brass guilt, hold up the back of this Altar which is all of Lapis Lazuli, or Oriental blew Azure Stone ; in the midst of which is a little Nichio in the Wall, where the Picture of our Blessed Lady with Our Saviour in her Arms, made by St. Luke, is conserv'd and seen. This Nichio is surrounded with a row of rich precious Stones of great value set thick about it ; and shut up with two little halfdoors of two whole Agates, each of them two foot long and a Foot large. Theodorus Lector an ancient author makes mention of this Picture, and saith, Pulcheriae, Eudocia Imaginem matris Christi, quam Lucas Apostolatus pinxerat, Hieresolymis misit. The picture itself is so old, and placed so high that it's hard to perceive the lineaments of the Face, unless you see it with a wax Taper at the end of a long Pole, as I did." Upon this altar of the Madonna "Salute del Popolo Romano," the young Roman Eugenio Pacelli offered his first Mass on Easter Monday morning forty years ago." SALUS POPULI ROMANI"