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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131025| Title: | History and description of the venerable and miraculous icon of our Blessed Lady of Philermos, patroness of the Sacred and Military Order of Malta |
| Keywords: | Philermos, Our Lady of -- Cult Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Church of St John of Jerusalem in Great Ormond Street (London, Great Britain) |
| Issue Date: | n.d. |
| Publisher: | Clayton and Co. |
| Citation: | (n.d.). History and description of the venerable and miraculous icon of our Blessed Lady of Philermos, patroness of the Sacred and Military Order of Malta. Melitensia Miscellanea Collection (Melit-Misc. vol. 82.4). University of Malta Library, Melitensia Special Collections. |
| Abstract: | This celebrated picture was venerated in the Rhodes long before the conquest of the Island by the Sacred and Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, under the Grand Master de Villaret, in 1309. It had been brought from Jerusalem, by a Rhodian gentleman, for a Sanctuary which he founded on a rock where he had been saved from committing suicide by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin, and in Jerusalem also it had been long an object of public veneration. After the conquest of the island, tow lovers were found dead in teh sanctuary, and this tragic event gave to it the name of Philermos, or unhappy love... [Excerpt] |
| Description: | Bottom of Title Page: Indulgences granted by the Holy Father Pope Pius IX to the Church of St. John of Jerusalem, In Great Ormond Street. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131025 |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellania : volume 082 - A&SCMisc |
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