Our Lady of Liberty Medal
30mm Stainless Steel Pendant
CA$40.00CA$20.00
Our Lady of Freedom Necklace/Pendant, médaille de Notre Dame de Liberté, Medaglia/Collana Madonna Della Libera
Custom Engraving on the reverse of the pendant can be up to 88 characters spaces included. could be a name, prayer, date, whatever you would like
Diameter: 30mm/1.18 inches
Material: stainless steel engraving of our Lady of snow with a snowflake nimbus. Signed
Chain: this medal can be turned into a necklace with stainless steel figaro chain 3.5 mm. From 12 - 23 inches
On the weekend at St Mary’s our Italian community celebrated the feast of the Liberation of Colle Sannita (Benevento) Italy back on the 15th of November 1439. After the mass they honoured Our Lady under her title, Madonna Della Libera, (Our Lady of Liberty) in a solemn procession around the church with the beautiful statue that we are blessed to have in our church.
Over the centuries the faithful have invoked the intercession of Madonna Della Libera for deliverance from foreign invasions, persecutions and epidemics. It is said that St Padre Pio had a great devotion to Our Lady under this title.
The story of Our Lady of Liberty goes back nearly one and a half thousand years to the time of St. Barbatus who was then the Bishop of Benevento.
At that time the city, and the surrounding countryside, were living in fear. The Byzantine Greek armies had already inflicted many horrors on other towns in southern Italy and now they had set up camp in the valley between Benevento and the neighbouring hillside towns which included Pietrelcina.
Without help, their city and the countryside around, would surely have been lost. He promised that if they honoured their Christian faith, and gave up the pagan worship that still lingered in their culture, God would deliver them and give them peace. This was around the year 650 AD. Against all odds, the armies packed up and left for good. The city and villages survived and they remained faithful to their Christian beliefs. The Bishop had also told them to ask the Mother of God to pray for them. He told them to pray to her under the title ‘Madona Della Libera’ which means ‘Our Lady of Liberty’ or Deliverance.