Our Lady of Good Counsel

April 26

While Pope Francis had a special devotion to Mary, Health of the People of Rome, interest in Our Lady of Good Counsel has increased with the election of Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian Friar with a special devotion to Our Blessed Mother under this title. Over the centuries, devotions to this Marian title became widespread among Roman Pontiffs and Catholic saints, later added to the Litany of Loreto via the Pontifical decree Ex Quo Beatissima in 1903. The Rosary Pope raised her shrine to the status of Minor Basilica in the same year whilst the feast day is of the image is on 25—26 April.