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Iconic Monstrance “Our Lady of the Sign – The Ark of Mercy”
at St. Stanislas Kostka Roman Catholic Church designated as Chicago’s Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy.
Location: 1351 N Noble St. [at Evergreen Avenue], Chicago.
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Iconic Monstrance – “Our Lady of the Sign — Ark of Mercy” – a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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Iconic Monstrance
Our Lady of the Sign The Ark of Mercy
at St. Stanislas Kostka designated as Chicago’s Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy.
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The iconic monstrance depicts the woman of Isaiah 7:14, “The Lord himself will give you a Sign – the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel, ” and the women of Revelation 11:19 – 12:1-2, “Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the Ark of His Covenant was seen within His Sanctuary… And a great Sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.” Mary is the Sign of God’s promise of Mercy fulfilled-past, present and to be in the New Jerusalem. Her appearance clothed with the heavenly bodies depicts the Fourth Marian dogma of Mary’s Assumption into heaven. “Mary having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory,” Pope Pius XII.
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Iconic Monstrance – The white round large host at the center of the monstrance is Jesus Christ incarnated in the Blessed Sacrament.
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