Africa •
Algeria,
Algiers: "
Our Lady of Africa" •
Côte d’Ivoire,
Yamoussoukro: Madonna and child inside
Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. •
Senegal, Popenguine: "Notre-Dame de la Délivrance" •
South Africa,
Soweto: "The Black Madonna"
Asia Japan •
Tsuruoka City,
Yamagata Prefecture: the Tenshudō Catholic Church features a Black Madonna statue from France dating to the
Meiji Era.
The Philippines •
Antipolo, Rizal: (
Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage of Antipolo) •
Ermita,
City of Manila: (
Our Lady of Guidance) •
Santa Ana,
City of Manila: (Our Lady of the Abandoned) •
Parañaque: (
Our Lady of the Good Event) •
Lapu-Lapu City: (
Our Lady of the Rule) •
Naga, Camarines Sur: (
Our Lady of Peñafrancia) •
Piat, Cagayan: (
Our Lady of Piat) • Joroan,
Tiwi, Albay: (
Our Lady of Salvation)
India •
Dhori Mata • Korvi Mata,
Dediapada, Gujarat
Turkey • Trabzon: Sümela Monastery
Europe Austria •
Lavanttal,
Carinthia,
Austria:
St. Andrä im Lavanttal Basilica Maria Loreto Belgium •
Brugge, "Our Lady of Regla" •
Brussels: "
De Zwerte Lieve Vrouwe",
St. Catherine Church •
Halle (Flemish Brabant) :
Sint-Martinusbasiliek •
Liège:
La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse, •
Lier:
Onze Lieve Vrouw ter Gratiën •
Scherpenheuvel-Zichem:
Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel •
Tournai:
Our Lady of Flanders in
Tournai Cathedral •
Verviers: "
Black Virgin of the Recollects",
Notre-Dame des Récollets Church, •
Walcourt: (
Notre-Dame de Walcourt)
Croatia •
Marija Bistrica:
Our Lady of Bistrica, Queen of Croatia Czech Republic •
Brno:
Assumption of Virgin Mary Minor Basilica,
St Thomas's Abbey, Brno •
Cesky Krumlov Monastery Museum •
Prague:
The Madonna of Breznice; The Black Madonna in
The Church of Our Lady Under the Chain (
Kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem) The Black Madonna on the
House of the Black Madonna. TROJA CHATEAU chapel- original "Montserrat Madonna" from Old Town Byzantine building (pg.100 of Martin Krummholz ISBN 978-80-7010-131-5)
France (35) ) •
Aix-en-Provence, (
Bouches-du-Rhône):
Notre-Dame des Graces,
Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix •
Arconsat: (
Notre-Dame des Champs) •
Aurillac (
Cantal):
Notre-Dame des Neiges •
Beaune:
Our Lady of Beaune •
Besançon:
Our Lady de Gray •
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, (
Puy-de-Dôme):
Saint-André Church,
Notre-Dame de Vassivière •
Bourg-en-Bresse (
Ain): 13th century •
Chartres, (
Eure-et-Loir): crypt of the
Cathedral of Chartres,
Notre-Dame-de-Sous-Terre •
Clermont-Ferrand, (
Puy-de-Dôme) •
Cusset:
the Black Virgin of Cusset •
Dijon, (
Côte-d'Or):
Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon •
Douvres-la-Délivrande, Basilique Notre-Dame de la Délivrande, "Notre-Dame de la Délivrande" •
Dunkerque, (Nord) :
Chapelle des Dunes •
Guingamp, (
Côtes-d'Armor):
Basilica of Notre Dame de Bon Secours. •
La Chapelle-Geneste, (Haute-Loire:
Notre Dame de La Chapelle Geneste •
Laon (
Aisne):
Notre-Dame Cathedral, statue of 1848 •
Le Havre,(Seine-Maritime): statue near the
Graville Abbey (
Abbaye de Graville) •
Le Puy-en-Velay: In 1254 when passing through on his return from the Holy Land Saint
Louis IX of France gave the cathedral an ebony image of the Blessed Virgin clothed in gold brocade (
Notre-Dame du Puy). It was destroyed during the Revolution, but replaced at the Restoration with a copy that continues to be venerated. •
Liesse-Notre-Dame (
Aisne):
Notre-Dame de Liesse, statue destroyed in 1793, copy of 1857 •
Limeuil (
Dordogne): Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie á Limeuil. This XVII century statue was broken and thrown in the Dordogne during the French Wars of Religion (1562 - 1598) but recovered and returned to the church. •
Marseille, (
Bouches-du-Rhône):
Notre-Dame-de-Confession,
Abbey of St. Victor; Notre-Dame d'Huveaune, Saint-Giniez Church •
Mauriac,
Cantal:
Notre Dame des Miracles •
Mende (
Lozère) :
Cathedral (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende) •
Menton, (
Alpes-Maritimes): St. Michel Church •
Meymac (
Corrèze):
Meymac Abbey •
Molompize:
Notre-Dame de Vauclair •
Mont-Saint-Michel:
Notre-Dame du Mont-Tombe •
Myans (
Savoie):
Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Myans •
Paris, (
Neuilly-sur-Seine):
Notre-Dame de Bonne Délivrance, in the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Thomas of Villanova •
Quimper (
Finistère):
Eglise de Guéodet, nommée encore Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité •
Riom, (
Puy-de-Dôme):
Notre-Dame du Marthuret •
Rocamadour, (
Lot):
Our Lady of Rocamadour • Saint-Germain-Laval: Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Baffy •
Sainte Marie (
Réunion) : •
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (
Camargue) Avignon: Annual
Roma pilgrimage and festival celebrating
Sara, the patron saint of the
Roma •
Soissons (
Aisne): statue of the 12th century •
Tarascon, (
Bouches-du-Rhône):
Notre-Dame du Château •
Thuret, (
Puy-de-Dôme) •
Toulouse: The basilica
Notre-Dame de la Daurade in
Toulouse, France had housed the shrine of a Black Madonna. The original icon was stolen in the fifteenth century, and its first replacement was burned by Revolutionaries in 1799 on the
Place du Capitole. The icon presented today is an 1807 copy of the fifteenth century Madonna. Blackened by the hosts of candles, the second Madonna was known from the sixteenth century as Our Lady La Noire •
Tournemire,
Château d'Anjony,
Our Lady of Anjony •
Vaison-la-Romaine (
Vaucluse): statue on a hill •
Vichy (
Allier):
Saint-Blaise Church Germany ,
Altötting:
Gnadenkapelle •
Altötting (
Bavaria): Gnadenkapelle (
Chapel of the Miraculous Image) •
Beilstein (
Rhineland-Palatinate):
Karmeliterkirche St. Joseph •
Bielefeld (
North Rhine-Westphalia) •
Düsseldorf-Benrath (
North Rhine-Westphalia):
Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia •
Hirschberg an der Bergstraße (
Baden-Württemberg):
Wallfahrtskirche St. Johannes Baptist •
Schloss Hohenstein,
Upper Franconia (
Bavaria) •
Köln (
North Rhine-Westphalia):
St. Maria in der Kupfergasse •
Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim (
Rhineland-Palatinate):
Schloss- und Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (
Ludwigshafen) •
Mainau (
Baden-Württemberg):
Schlosskirche St. Marien •
Munich (
Bavaria):
Theatine Church;
St. Boniface's Abbey •
Rastatt (
Baden-Württemberg): Einsiedelner Kapelle •
Regensburg (
Bavaria):
Regensburg Cathedral •
Remagen (
Rhineland-Palatinate):
Kapelle Schwarze Madonna •
Spabrücken (
Rhineland-Palatinate) •
Stetten ob Lontal,
Niederstotzingen (
Baden-Württemberg) •
Windhausen in
Boppard-Herschwiesen (
Rhineland-Palatinate) •
Wipperfürth (
North Rhine-Westphalia):
St. Johannes, Kreuzberg •
Wuppertal-Beyenburg (
North Rhine-Westphalia)
Greece •
Hidden church of the Black Madonna,
Vamos,
Crete Hungary ,
Hungary •
Cathedral Basilica of Eger: Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Ireland •
Dublin (
Leinster):
Our Lady of Dublin in
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church Italy Madonna Bruna: restoration work in the 1990s found a medieval statue with later additions.
Nigra sum sed formosa, meaning "I am black but beautiful" (from the
Song of Songs, 1:5), is inscribed round a newer base. in Black Madonna costume in
Venice •
Biella (
Piedmont):
Black Virgin of Oropa,
sanctuary of Oropa • Canneto Valley near
Settefrati (
Lazio):
Madonna di Canneto •
Casale Monferrato (
Piedmont): Our Lady of Crea. In the hillside Sanctuary at Crea (Santuario di Crea), a cedar-wood figure, said to be one of three Black Virgins brought to Italy from the
Holy Land c. 345 by
St. Eusebius. •
Castelmonte,
Prepotto (
Friuli-Venezia Giulia) •
Gubbio,
Italy: The Niger-Regin square, discovered carved in
the cave of Sibilla Eugubina on
Mount Ingino, is considered to be a
word square form of the "Black Queen". Seemingly of neo-Templar origin, it is dated between 1600–1800 CE, was discovered in 2003, and destroyed by vandalism in 2012. •
Loreto (
Marche):
Basilica della Santa Casa •
Montevergine (
Campania):
Mamma Schiavona (lit. "Slave Mamma") located at
Sanctuary of Montevergine •
Naples (
Campania):
Santuario-Basilica SS Carmine Maggiore •
Pescasseroli (
Abruzzo):
Madonna di Monte Tranquillo •
Positano (
Campania): Located in the
church of Santa Maria Assunta, the story of how it got there—sailors shouting "Posa, posa!" ("Put it down, put it down!")—gave the town its name. •
San Severo (
Apulia):
"La Madonna del Soccorso" (
The Madonna of Succor),
St. Severinus Abbot and
Saint Severus Bishop Faeto. Statue in gold garments, object of a major three-day festival that attracts over 350,000 people to this small town. •
Seminara (
Calabria):
Maria Santissima dei poveri •
Tindari (
Sicily):
Our Lady of Tindari •
Torre Annunziata (
Campania):
Madonna della Neve •
Venice (
Veneto):
Madonna della Salute,
Santa Maria della Salute •
Viggiano (
Basilicata):
Santuario Madonna del Sacro Monte Kosovo •
Vitina-:
Church of the Black Madonna, where
Mother Teresa is believed to have heard her calling.
Lithuania Lithuania •
Aušros vartai:
Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn •
Our Lady of Šiluva:
Our Lady of the Pine Woods Luxembourg •
Esch-sur-Sûre •
Luxembourg City:
Grund • Luxembourg City:
St. John's Church Macedonia •
Kališta, Monastery: Madonna icon in the
Nativity of Our Most Holy Mother of God church • Ohrid, Church: Madonna with the child
Malta •
Ħamrun:
Our Lady of Atoċja, a medieval painting brought to
Malta by a merchant in the year
1630, depicting a statue found in
Atocha, a parish in
Madrid,
Spain, and widely known as
Il-Madonna tas-Samra. (This can mean 'tanned Madonna', 'brown Madonna', or 'Madonna of
Samaria'.)
Poland , covered in a decorative silver shield, at the
Jasna Góra Monastery in
Poland • Częstochowa:
Our Lady of Czestochowa • In the United States, the
National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania houses a reproduction of the Black Madonna of
Częstochowa. A second
shrine to Our Lady of Częstochowa is located near
Eureka, Missouri. • In
Israel there are two reproductions of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa: One in
St. Peter's Church in
Tel Aviv, and another in the
Abbey of the Dormition in
Jerusalem. •
Głogówek:
Our Lady of Loretto Portugal •
Nazaré (
Oeste Subregion):
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Nazaré; see:
the legend of Nazaré Romania • :
Maica Domnului Siriaca – •
Cacica: Madona Neagra –
Biserica Cacica •
Bucuresti: Madona Neagra –
Biserica Dichiu Three-handed Black Madonna,
Serbian Orthodox Hilandar.
Serbia Russia •
Kostroma (
Kostroma Oblast):
Theotokos of St. Theodore also known as Our Lady of St. Theodore (Федоровская Богоматерь), in
Theophany Monastery •
Our Lady of Wladimir, from the
12th century •
Black Virgin of Taganrog,
Taganrog Old Cemetery Serbia •
Apatin:
Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church Slovenia •
Koprivna, Črna na Koroškem:
St. Anne's Church, Koprivna –
the altar of Black Madonna Spain , in the
Basilica of Candelaria (
Tenerife) •
Andújar (
Province of Jaén): (
Our Lady of Cabeza), named after the mountain, or . •
Chipiona (
Province of Cádiz): or (
Our Lady of Regla or the Virgin of Regla), considered by some as the custodian of the
Rule of Saint Augustine •
Coria (
Province of Cáceres): (
Our Lady of Argeme) •
El Puerto de Santa María (
Province of Cádiz): (
The Virgin of the Miracles) •
Guadalupe (
Province of Cáceres): (
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura) •
Jerez de la Frontera (
Province of Cádiz): (
Our Lady Of Mercy) •
Madrid (
Community of Madrid): (
Our Lady of Atocha) •
Lluc,
Mallorca (
Balearic Islands): (Our Lady of Lluc),
Lluc Monastery •
Monistrol de Montserrat (
Catalonia): (
Virgin of Montserrat) or "" in the Benedictine abbey of
Santa Maria de Montserrat •
Ponferrada (
Province of León): (Our Lady of the
Holm Oak) •
Salamanca (
Province of Salamanca): (
The Virgin of France's Rock, named after the local mountain called ) •
Santiago de Compostela (
Galicia): A replica of "" • Rianxo (Galicia): Virgen de Guadalupe •
Tenerife (
Canary Islands): (
Virgin of Candelaria), or "" •
Toledo (
Province of Toledo): (
Dark Virgin), statue of in the
Cathedral of Toledo () (
The Enslavement of Our Lady of the Tabernacle) •
Torreciudad (
Huesca):
Our Lady of Torreciudad Sweden •
Lund Cathedral Attached to a marble pillar in the crypt: Black madonna with child •
Skee Kyrka,
Skee,
Bohuslän former Norwegian province. Black madonna with beheaded child
Switzerland •
Einsiedeln (
Canton of Schwyz):
Our Lady of the Hermits • In the United States, a reproduction of Our Lady of the Hermits was gifted to the
St. Meinrad Archabbey located in St. Meinrad, Indiana •
Sonogno, Valle Verzasca (
Canton of Ticino):
Santa Maria Loretana •
Uetikon upon Lake (
Canton of Zürich):
Catholic Church Saint Francis of Assisi •
Metzerlen-Mariastein (
Canton of Solothurn):
Mariastein Abbey •
Ascona (
Canton of Ticino):
Black Chapel •
Lugano (
Canton of Ticino):
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Loreto 's surviving
icons of the Theotokos on the island of
Heybeliada at the
Theological School of Halki]
Ukraine •
Tsarytsya Karpat (
Hoshiv Monastery):
The Queen of the Carpathian Land United Kingdom •
St. Mary Willesden (
Our Lady of Willesden): The original
Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden. •
Our Lady of Częstochowa (
Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Nottingham)
North America Costa Rica •
Cartago,
Cartago Province:
Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (
Our Lady of the Angels Basilica)
Cuba •
Regla,
Havana Province: Nuestra Señora de Regla (Spanish for
Our Lady of Regla)
Mexico •
Tepeyac,
Mexico City:
Our Lady of Guadalupe Trinidad and Tobago •
Siparia:
La Divina Pastora •
Gran Couva:
Our Lady of Montserrat United States •
Pacific, Missouri:
Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos •
Doylestown, Pennsylvania:
National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa •
Jersey City, New Jersey: Our Lady of Czestochowa •
New York City, New York:
Cathedral of St. John the Divine • New York City, New York:
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola •
Detroit, Michigan: Shrine of the Black Madonna Church •
Chicago, Illinois: Monastery of the Holy Cross •
Westport, Connecticut: Church of the Assumption •
Cheektowaga, New York: [https://www.olc-cheektowaga.com/ Our Lady of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church •
North Tonawanda, New York: Our Lady of Czestochowa Church •
Tulsa, Oklahoma: [ https://www.saintjerometulsa.org/our-lady-of-the-heights Our Lady of the Heights
Canada • Windsor, Ontario -Black Madonna chapel located at Italian banquet hall Ciociaro club.
South America Brazil •
Aparecida,
São Paulo:
Our Lady of Aparecida or Our Lady Appeared (Nossa Senhora Aparecida or Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida) in the
Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida Chile •
Andacollo,
Elqui Province:
La Virgen Morena (Spanish for
The Brunette Virgin) ==See also==