Our Lady: Feasts, Titles and Devotions

The Blessed Virgin Mary holds a unique place in Catholic faith and devotion. Here you will find her feasts — the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption — her titles, from Mother of God to Undoer of Knots, and the apparitions approved by the Church, from Guadalupe and Lourdes to Fatima and Knock, with the devotions and prayers attached to each.

Seated veiled woman handing a white serpent to a winged child, cherubs above, on a canvas on a stone wall

Our Lady

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the Blessed Virgin Mary honoured under an ancient Byzantine icon of the Passion, entrusted by Pope Pius IX to the Redemptorists in 1866 with the charge to make her known. The icon, the devotion, the prayer, and the novena, from the sources.

Iter Fidei October 21, 2026

A praying woman in a white and blue robe stands on a crescent moon and serpent, surrounded by cherubs and flowers

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The Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception is the dogma that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first instant of her conception, was preserved free from all stain of original sin by a singular grace of God.

Iter Fidei October 9, 2026

Veiled woman on a golden mandorla, a mitred bishop and a kneeling man with red roses beside her

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego near Mexico City in 1531, who left her image miraculously imprinted on his tilma.

Iter Fidei October 7, 2026

Radiant white-robed praying woman floating above a tree as three children kneel in a rocky landscape

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Our Lady of Fatima

The story of the Our Lady of Fatima apparition of 1917: the three shepherd children, the call to the Rosary and penance, the miracle of the sun, and the three secrets.

Iter Fidei June 25, 2026

The veiled Virgin in a blue robe with a flaming heart on her chest opens her arms amid streaming rays of light

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The Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Immaculate Heart of Mary — what the devotion means, why the Church honours Our Lady's heart, and how consecration to the Immaculate Heart is made.

Iter Fidei June 24, 2026

Crowned woman with the Christ child holding scapulars above clouds, reaching robed figures below

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Brown Scapular

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title under which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honoured as patroness of the Carmelite Order, kept on July 16; according to Carmelite tradition she gave the Brown Scapular to St Simon Stock as a sign of her protection.

Iter Fidei June 24, 2026