Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

Yesterday was the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. This very well known icon appears to have been created in Crete in the thirteenth century, and the original in Rome has become very well known and loved by the faithful across the world in the last century and a half through photography and other copies.

The New Liturgical Movement has reproduced a 2016 article by Michael P. Foley from the Messenger of St Antony which is a history of the icon, its symbolism and of devotion to it at Perpetual Helper