Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-07
POPE LEO MAKES AN ADDITION
TO THE LITANY OF
LoRETTo.
Mother Of Good counseI-The Famous
Shrine of Our Blessed Lady at Gen.
azzano Has Been Raised to the Rank
and Dignity of BasiIica.

aQQ the lnVOcatlOn, MOther Oh GOOQ
Counsel, pray for u.s." mater Boni
Consilli, ora pro nobis") after the in
vocation, Mother Most Admirable"
("Mater Admirabilis") when reciting
the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, COM
monty called the Litany of our Lady of
Loretto"
Quite recently the famous shrine of
Our Blessed Lady, under the beautiful
title Of Virgin Mother of Good Counsel
was raised to the rank and dignity of a
basilica. This shrine is at Genazzano,
and only one church outside of the
eternal City, that of Our Lady of
Loudres, shares with Genazzano this
privilege.
During the whole course of his ponti,
ficate, Leo XIII has interested himself
in the efforts which have been made to
extend the devotion of Our Blessed
Lady, under the title Of Mother OF
Good Counsel Year after year, during
the last quarter of a century, when the
cares of the church pressed heavily up.
on him, it has been his wont to recon
mend himself to the Mother of Good
Counsel, whose picture is invariably
before him. A brief account of the or.
igin of this devotion will be greatly ap.
Hrcciated by the readers OF this paper
Genazzano.
This little town is situated in the hill
country of Latium, about thirty miles
south of Rome Al a limo wien tbe
Roman emnire had sunk tn tho Iowast
DENNIS of moraI deera da+ion tb;S die
trict Witnessed some of The fon,ast
rites nracticed in honor of tho oodaess
Venus When the iooaIit,y had been
won to the nractica Of the cbristiar
religion we And tho amnerors 'Constan
tine comforting Il mon pone e. Cvl
vester + al e1Al pone q Ma,,,
the successor of pone ST. sylvestar
did much toward eradicatine al ~. ces
of nacanism from cenazzano and mil,
a chnrcb to tba viroiY Mo+lar nf 60
under tho t;tla of I,sdv Of Good COW
sci close tn tho cite ~ What h.d snr
| merly had been . tan,nla Of Wan1s
This church continued IN exist in Cor
azzano down to the fifteenth century
! Then the historic family of the Colon
| mas were the feudal lords of the place
and in the year 1886 Prince Pier Iior
dan Solonna. by the exercise of his
| jus patronatus. made over the church
| to the community of Augustinian Her
mits who had settled in Genazzano
| It was in a most dilapidated condition
and years ELAPSED before thew succeed
ed in restoring if to a state henafitt;n.
such a venerable institution Early IS
the fifteenth century q mons widow Il
Genazzano named Petruccia an An
gustinian tertiary undertook to rebnil,
one of the channels attached n III,
church. Her worldly means were No
sufficient to accomnlish This and tn,
walls Of tho chanel we've snarnasr si,
feet above the grolnd when tho wor ~.
had to he Abandoned Patrucoia how,
ever never do,hted b,t tbat tho aoo Nv
work sooner or LATER would be hro Cob
TO, cnmnletinn nav and MONT sba be
sought tbe intercessinn of our Cd,
and ST Ampustine For th;s nnrnasa y.
| If nleased Aimiehtv God 70 ans psS d ha,
nra vers in the fo1,oWina ,,,;ra =, nv,
manner. iiiii az uio y
-. -, or 40,
on april 20, l4o1, tne people OF
G era.Is 4sa were celeprating what
ha u ,, we Dg haa 1be; OF Gnflsdlanity