Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever
invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence
fills my souls when I utter your scared name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you
so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name.
But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me to
ever hail you Mother of Perpetual Help.

Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me
the favor I confidently ask of you.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Introduction of Our Mother of Perpetual Help

The original picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was an icon of the fourteenth century that was painted on walnut wood in tempera [21 inches by 17 inches].

Events that took place over the years in chronological occurrence:

From 1499 to 1798 the picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was venerated in the church of Saint Matthew in Merulana, Italy. The Irish Augustinians were taking care of the Church for a century. Because of the many favors which came to those who prayed before this image, the picture became known as "Our Mother of Perpetual Help".
In 1798 the church of Saint Matthew was totally destroyed by one of the Marshals of Napoleon. But the picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help had already been removed in time and was first placed in the Church of Saint Eusebius and then in a side chapel of the Augustinian Monastery of Saint Mary in Posterula.
In 1853 a new church was built on the old former site of the original church of Saint Matthew in Merulana, Italy. The Redemptotist Fathers took care of the new church, and named the church Saint Alphonsus.
In April of 1866 the picture was returned to the site where formerly it was venerated, prayed by many souls.
On June 23, 1867 the picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help bestow the formal honor of a Papal Crown.

Pope Pus IX was devotedly attached to the picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Pope Pus IX was the soul individual that returned the picture to its original site.

Pope Pius IX was the first member of the Confraternity of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Pope Pius IX inaugurated a feast for Our Mother of Perpetual Help on
June 27 and also a Mass and an Office which are observed in many places.

Devotion to Our Mother of Perpetual Help and prayers and novenas in her honor have spread throughout the world.

June 27th: Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Feast Day