Black Madonna

Black Madonna katika sanaa ya Kikristo ni jina la sanamu au mchoro wa Bikira Maria na Mtoto Yesu, ambao wote wawili wana rangi nyeusi.

• Afrika Kusini, Soweto: "The Black Madonna"^[1]
• Algeria, Algiers: "Our Lady of Africa"^[2]
• Senegal, Popenguine: "Notre-Dame de la Délivrance"^[3]

• Tsuruoka city, Yamagata prefecture: Tsuruoka Tenshudô Catholic Church features a black Madonna statue given by France during Meiji period^[4]

• Antipolo, Rizal: Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje de Antipolo (Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage of Antipolo)^[5]
• Ermita, Manila: Nuestra Señora de Guía (Our Lady of Guidance)
• Santa Ana, City of Manila: Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados (Our Lady of the Abandoned)
• Parañaque: Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso (Our Lady of the Good Event)
• Lapu-Lapu: Nuestra Señora de Regla (Our Lady of the Rule)^[6]
• Naga, Camarines Sur: Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia (Our Lady of Peñafrancia)
• Piat, Cagayan: Nuestra Señora de la Visitación de Piat (Our Lady of Piat)^[7]
• Joroan, Tiwi, Albay: Nuestra Señora de la Salvación (Our Lady of Salvation)

• Lavanttal, Carinthia, Austria: „Schwarze Madonna von Loreto“

• Brugge, "Our Lady of Regla"^[8]
• Brussels: "De Zwerte Lieve Vrouwo", St. Catherine Church
• Halle (Flemish Brabant) : Sint-Martinusbasiliek
• Liège: La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse,
• Lier: Onze lieve vrouw ter Gratien
• 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-Dames de Walcourt)

• Marija Bistrica: Our Lady of Bistrica, Queen of Croatia

• Brno: Assumption of Virgin Mary Minor Basilica, St Thomas's Abbey, Brno^[9]
• Prague: The Madonna of Breznice; The Church of Our Lady Under the Chain (Kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem)^[10] The Black Madonna on the House of the Black Madonna.

• Aix-en-Provence, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame des Graces, Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix^[11]
• Arconsat: (Notre-Dame des Champs)
• Aurillac, (Cantal): Notre-Dame des Neiges^[12]
• 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^[13]
• Clermont-Ferrand, (Puy-de-Dôme)^[14]
• 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"^[15]
• 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^[16]
• 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.^[17]
• Liesse-Notre-Dame, (Aisne): Notre-Dame de Liesse, statue destroyed in 1793, copy of 1857
• Marseille, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame-de-Confession,^[18] Abbey of St. Victor; Notre-Dame d'Huveaune, Saint-Giniez Church
• Mauriac, Cantal: Notre Dame des Miracles^[19]
• Mende, (Lozère) : Cathedral (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende)
• Menton, (Alpes-Maritimes): St. Michel Church
• Meymac, (Corrèze): Meymac Abbey^[20]
• 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^[21]
• Quimper, (Finistère): Église de Guéodet, nommée encore Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité
• Riom, (Puy-de-Dôme): Notre-Dame du Marthuret^[22]
• Rocamadour, (Lot): Our Lady of Rocamadour^[23]
• Sainte Marie (Réunion) : Kigezo:Interlanguage link multi
• Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (Camarque) Avignon: Annual Roma pilgrimage and festival^[24] celebrating Sara, the patron saint of the Roma^[25]
• Soissons (Aisne): statue of the 12th century
• Tarascon, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame du Château^[26]
• Thuret, (Puy-de-Dôme)^[27]
• 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^[28]
• Tournemire, Château d'Anjony, Our Lady of Anjony
• Vaison-la-Romaine, (Vaucluse): statue on a hill
• Vichy, (Allier): Saint-Blaise Church

• 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 (Nord Rhein Westfalen): 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)

• Hidden church of the Black Madonna, Vamos, Crete

• Kanisa kuu la Eger: Bibi Yetu wa Kukingiwa Dhambi ya Asili

• Dublin (Leinster): Our Lady of Dublin in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church

• 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, Umbria: The Niger-Regin square, discovered carved in the cave of Sibilla Eugubina on Mount Ingino, is considered to be a word square form 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.^[29][30][31]

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• Loreto (Marche): Basilica della Santa Casa
• 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^[32]

• Vitina: Church of the Black Madonna, ambapo Mama Teresa alipata wito wake.^[33]

• Aušros vartai: Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
• Our Lady of Šiluva: Our Lady of the Pine Woods

• Esch-sur-Sûre
• Luxembourg: Luxembourg-Grund
• Luxembourg: St. John's Church^[34]

• Kališta, Monastery: Madonna icon in the Nativity of Our Most Holy Mother of God church
• Ohrid, Church: Madonna with the child

• 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'.)

• 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.^{[35][36][37][38][39][40]}
• Głogówek: Our Lady of Loretto

• Nazaré (Oeste Subregion): Sanctuary of Our Lady of Nazaré; see: the legend of Nazaré

• Ghighiu, Prahova: Maica Domnului Siriaca – Manastirea Ghighiu
• Cacica: Madona Neagra – Biserica Cacica
• Bucuresti: Madona Neagra – Biserica Dichiu

• 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

• Apatin (Vojvodina): Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church

• Koprivna, Črna na Koroškem: St. Anne's Church, Koprivna – the altar of Black Madonna

• Andújar (Province of Jaén): Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza (Our Lady of Cabeza), named after the mountain, Cerro de la Cabeza or Cerro de Cabezo.
• Chipiona (Province of Cádiz): la Virgen de Regla or Nuestra Señora de Regla (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): Virgen de Argeme (Our Lady of Argeme)
• El Puerto de Santa María (Province of Cádiz): Virgen de los Milagros (The Virgin of the Miracles)
• Guadalupe (Province of Cáceres): Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura)
• Jerez de la Frontera (Province of Cádiz): Nuestra Señora de la Merced (Our Lady Of Mercy)
• Madrid (Community of Madrid): Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Our Lady of Atocha)
• Lluc, Majorca (Balearic Islands): Mare de Déu de Lluc (Our Lady of Lluc), Lluc Monastery
• Monistrol de Montserrat (Catalonia): Mare de Déu de Montserrat (Virgin of Montserrat) or "La Moreneta" in the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat
• Ponferrada (Province of León): Virgen de la Encina (Our Lady of the Holm Oak)
• Salamanca (Province of Salamanca): Virgen de la Peña de Francia (The Virgin of France's Rock, named after the local mountain called Peña de Francia)
• Santiago de Compostela (Galicia):
• Tenerife (Canary Islands): Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Virgin of Candelaria), or "La Morenita"
• Toledo (Province of Toledo): Virgen Morena (Dark Virgin), statue of La Esclavitud de Nuestra Señora del Sagrario in the Cathedral of Toledo (Catedral Primada de Santa María) (The Enslavement of Our Lady of the Tabernacle)
• Torreciudad (Huesca): Our Lady of Torreciudad

• Lunds Domkyrka Lund Cathedral Attached to a marble pillar in the crypt: Black madonna with child
• Skee Kyrka Bohuslän former Norwegian and Danish province. Black madonna with beheaded child [1]

• Einsiedeln (Canton of Schwyz): Our Lady of the Hermits
• 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

Three icons portraying the Theotokos with black skin survived in Turkey to the present day, one of which is housed in the church of Halki theological seminary.

• Trabzon: Sümela Monastery^[41]

• Tsarytsya Karpat (Hoshiv Monastery): The Queen of the Carpathian Land

• 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)

• 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

• Andacollo, Elqui Province: La Virgen Morena (Spanish for The Brunette Virgin)

• Cartago, Cartago Province: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (Our Lady of the Angels Basilica)

• Regla, Havana Province: Nuestra Señora de Regla (Spanish for Our Lady of Regla)

• Siparia: La Divina Pastora^[42]
• Gran Couva: Our Lady of Montserrat^[43]

• Black Madonna Shrine, Missouri
• Our Lady of Ferguson

• Channell, J., "Black Virgin Sites in France"
• Rozett, Ella. "Index of Black Madonnas Worldwide", InterfaithMary.net Archived 7 Oktoba 2017 at the Wayback Machine.

• List of Black Madonnas
• The Black Virgin – Karen Ralls
• Montserrat
• Pilgrimage
• Black Madonna gallery by Canon Jim Irvine, New Brunswick, Canada
• The Black Madonna "The work of God"
• Nuestra Señora de Atocha
• Black Madonna Pilgrimage to Central France
• Black Madonna photo collection on Flickr
• Black Madonnas and other Mysteries of Mary – Ella Rozett
• Sciorra, Joseph. "The Black Madonna of Thirteenth Street", Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, Vol. 30, Spring-Summer 2004
• Black Madonna in modern art - see Black Madonna by BystreetSky Artist https://web.archive.org/web/20180802193137/https://www.bystreetsky.com/bystreetsky-art?lightbox=dataItem-j74w6ola