Our Lady of Good Counsel is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, after a painting said to be miraculous, now found in the thirteenth century Augustinian church at Genazzano, near Rome, Italy. Measuring 40 to 45 centimetres the image is a fresco executed on a thin layer of plaster no thicker than an egg shell. Over the centuries, devotions to Our Lady of the Good Counsel grew among saints and Popes, to the extent that a reference to it was added to the Litany of Loreto and the devotion spread throughout the world. Her feast day is 26 April.
Our Lady of Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel by Pasquale Sarullo, 19th century.
Madonna di Buon Consiglio mosaic by Nunzio Monticelli, 20th century.
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
