Virgen de los Desamparados
Our Lady of the Abandoned (Forsaken)
This feast of Our Lady is celebrated on May 12 in Valencia, Spain, where her miraculous image is venerated and she is revered as the patroness of the city. Tradition In Action has a short history on devotion to Our Lady under this title, from the writings of the always reliable, Professor Plinio Corra de Oliveira.
Our Lady is venerated under this title as the patroness of children, the abandoned and neglected, as well as the most desperate and vulnerable of society; the mentally ill, the homeless, the unemployed, the imprisoned.
Don Marco has an edifying post on the prayers of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin, which has inspired me to pray my rosaries to Our Lady under this title in preparation for her feast day. I’m obviously a desperate case. (”No, no, that wasn’t a question.” - Miranda Priestly)
