Virgin Mary - Miraflores, Lima, Peru
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The statue of the Virgin Mary is located in Champagnat Park, part of the Malecon de Miraflores, a district of Lima, Peru.
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Location: Peru
Date Posted: 11/18/2019
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The Malecon is a two-mile strip of parks, gardens and green space on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Miraflores.
Mary is shown standing with open arms, wearing a white dress and veil and a blue cape.
In the Catholic Church, the veneration of Mary, mother of Jesus, encompasses various Marian devotions which include prayer, pious acts, visual arts, poetry, and music devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Belief in the incarnation of God the Son through Mary is the basis for calling her the Mother of God, which was declared a dogma at the Council of Ephesus in 431. At the Second Vatican Council and in Pope John Paul II's encyclical edemptoris mater, she is spoken of also as Mother of the Church.
Veneration for Mary is based on the reference in the Gospel of Luke to Mary as the selected handmaid of the Lord who is greeted and praised by both Elizabeth and the angel Gabriel. God's work is further illuminated in the Marian dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church such as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, and are, in the Roman Catholic view, part of the apostolic tradition and divine revelation.
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