Our Lady of The Snows

Our Lady of the Snows may refer to:

  • Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, in Rome
  • Our Lady of Snows Basilica, A minor basilica in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Basilica of Our Lady of Snow, Pallippuram, A minor basilica in Pallippuram, Ernakulam, India
  • Dedication of Saint Mary Major, the feast celebrating the dedication of this church, renamed from the Dedication of Our Lady of the Snows in 1969
  • Our Lady of the Snows (Trappist monastery) in Ardèche, France, built in 1850
  • National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois, USA, built in the 1950s
  • Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1854
  • Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Quebec, a town
  • Church of Havas Boldogasszony, Zebegény, Hungary, built 1908–1909

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or snows:

    “Sweet Suffolk Owl, so trimly dight
    With feathers, like a lady bright,
    Thou sing’st alone, sitting by night,
    Te whit! Te whoo! Te whit! To whit!”
    —Thomas Vautor (fl. c. 1590?)

    “Her image was my ensign: snows melted,
    Hedges sprouted, the moon tenderly shone,
    The owls trilled with tongues of nightingale.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)