Our Lady of Charity is a celebrated Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in many Catholic countries.
The present image enshrined in the Minor Basilica of Nuestra Señora Caridad del Cobre
The Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, built in 1926.
The venerated image in Huamantla, crowned by Pope Paul VI for Mexico on 15 August 1974 via formal decree Quandoquidem Beatissima Virgo dated 25 July of the same year.
For many centuries, Notre-Dame-de-La-Charité was the second largest church in Europe.
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles, epithets, invocations, and several names associated with places.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Byzantine icon, possibly 13th or 14th century
Dormition of the Mother of God 10th c. ivory plaque, Cluny
Madonna and Child among Ethiopian saints, Ethiopia mid 17th c.
Copy of Our Lady of Mercy from Lwów Cathedral before which John II Casimir Vasa first made vows to Mary, "Queen of Poland and Lithuania in 1656