is a fact that many Muslims, especially women, linger in front of the caves in the world erected to honor Mary, or, past, thoughts turn to her and call. This is such a common occurrence in Pakistan, where the statue of the Virgin Mary is veiled completely in accordance with the local culture, while the great pilgrimage to the National September Maryamabad ("village of Mary"), brings together sometimes more than one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand pilgrims, including many Muslims.
The Islamic devotion to Our Lady is found clearly to those who visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon above Beirut, but it is a fact in the world and corresponds to the exceptional nature of the figure of Maryam in the same Koran. Recently, Christians and Muslims in Lebanon have brought to proclaim March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary, a national holiday. The idea was officially welcomed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, and declared, in 2010, festive occasion, "National Islamic-Christian." The nation
found that more than a reality that is Syria. A 30 km south of Damascus there is a sanctuary of Sednaya and says that the entire Middle East is the most visited by pilgrims, after Jerusalem. It is considered the first place where Noah planted the first vineyard and squeezed the first wine after the Flood.
But above all there is venerated image of the Virgin, painted - it claims - by the evangelist St. Luke, around which a shrine was built in 594 by Emperor Justinian, after he had a vision of the Virgin Mary while he was hunting. The monastery is run by Orthodox and is very popular, there are many women that come to us, because it is shared belief that people who spend a night in prayer at this shrine to get the gift of safe motherhood. Not far away there are also the shrine of St. Thecla (Mar Taqla) and the Monastery of St. Sergius (Mar Sarkis) that has engulfed the church in a pagan altar.
We are in the village of Maaloula, where people still speak Aramaic, and among the rocks of Kalamum water rises they say miraculous, a place of pilgrimage for Christians and Muslims. Even at the monastery of Deir Mar Musa (with an Italian Jesuit, the original name of Paul Oglio) come many Muslims, especially women, who turn the icon of the Virgin Mary with deep devotion. Among the most famous has added more than 25 years, the name of Saoufanieh, which has particular significance because it combines Arabic, Russian, Orthodox, Catholics and Muslims.
This is a modest neighborhood, called "Christians" in the north of Damascus, outside the city walls, near the door called 'Thomas'. From November 27, 1982 in an old Arab house inhabited by Nicola Nassour and Myrna, and she him orthodox Catholic, recently married, came forward from an image of "Our Lady of Kazan (Russian for himself ... but Damascus are also many authentic Russian icons in the market!) sweats of oil recovered immediately in-law and her mother. Since then
'Emissions continue ", the Orthodox Patriarchate has found the truth after examining the nature of the oil (olive oil) and there is an influx of the faithful of all religious affiliations, many of them Muslims. The reasons are many visitors, but the aim is common to all is the same: to pray. Prayer to Soufanieh remained far more intense, simple and revenue bids. Myrna who first picked miraculous that oil was allowed to have a website to inform the faithful of the world about what happens to Soufanieh (or Suffaniyya). From May 18 to 25 of each year in Egypt, Muslims and Christians celebrate the birth of Mary and go to hundreds thousands (even reaching the two million) to the shrine on Mount Al-Tir (Samallut, province of Minya).
Here the 'Holy Family' would have stayed for three nights on the Flight into Egypt, according to Muslim tradition, would last 12 years. Other reasons meetings are the "apparitions" of Mary on the outskirts of Cairo: the first was "photographed" at the Coptic church in the district of Zaytuna, April 2, 1968, the second would be seen, first, two mechanics from the Muslims March 25, 1986, and then by many others in Shoubra, also in Cairo. Another important place of pilgrimage for Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Muslims in Turkey, the house where, according to tradizione, avrebbe passato gli ultimi anni di vita terrena la Madonna: nella montagna sopra Efeso, chiamata Meriem Ana.
Là si recano continuamente anche musulmani (dicono che siano anche un milione in un anno), non tutti forse per pregare, ma certamente in ricordo e in omaggio a Maria, madre di Gesù. Un altro luogo dove si trovano donne in preghiera davanti alla statua di Maria è l’«altare sabaudo» a Nostra Signora del Rosario nella chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Istanbul (retta dai domenicani). Per quanto riguarda il Maghreb va notato che a Casablanca (Marocco) si incontrano molte donne musulmane davanti alla grotta di Nostra Signora di Lourdes al Rond-Point-d’Europe (parrocchia cattolica della città).
Thousands and thousands of Muslim pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algiers, that are often known as "Madame l'Afrique." Europe is also the shrine of Our Lady de la Garde Marseille above where, especially in the early morning, you see many Muslims, not to forget Fatima, the world center of pilgrimage, Muslims remember the name of the daughter of Muhammad. Certain communities of Albanian immigrants in Italy (Christians and Muslims) come together around the Lady of Good Counsel, whose image, as is known, is Genazzano (Rome), but comes from Albania.
Luigi Bressan, Future, February 16, 2011
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