Feast of Our Lady of Snows

Mary Snow, also with Latin genitive of Mary Snow, lat: S. Maria ad Nives is a Catholic day of remembrance on August 5, commemorating the consecration of the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore anno 432 According to legend, she was on the Esquiline after a " snow Wonderland " founded on the morning of August 5 358 under Pope Liberius and in its present form by Pope Sixtus III. been built.

Various places of pilgrimage in Central Europe have this patronage and celebrate on August 5, her church festival.

See also: Mary of the Snows Church

Legend of the Snow Wonderland

The Madonna should be anno 358 the Roman patrician John and his wife appeared in the night on the 5th of August and have promised them that their desire for a son would come true if you will be erected in honor of a church on the spot where the next morning lying snow. The couple then went to Pope Liberius to that same dream had. On the morning of August 5 the highest elevation of Esquilinhügels was colored white with snow.

Bauer rule

"Rain to Mary Snow / / do the corn ears hurt a lot."

Maria snow in the literature

A full appreciation of Maria snow provides Eckhard Henscheid in his novella of 1988 ( in Volume 6 of the total output ).