The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

This feast of our Lady’s Sorrows has its origin in Christian devotion which finds it fitting to associate her with the Passion of her Son. In the eleventh century the sorrows of our Lady were the object of private devotion. In the fourteenth century the moving Stabat Mater was written by blessed Jacopone da Todi.…

This feast of our Lady’s Sorrows has its origin in Christian devotion which finds it fitting to associate her with the Passion of her Son. In the eleventh century the sorrows of our Lady were the object of private devotion. In the fourteenth century the moving Stabat Mater was written by blessed Jacopone da Todi.…