Old Antique Music Box Lourdes France Vintage Ave Maria Tune Lucite Glows in Dark
Price: $69.50
I have seen many of these kind of music boxes but this one was made of Lucite. It glows in the dark The Virgin Mary has been shown with a Halo around her head. This Halo with the text: "Je Suis l Immaculee Conception". The Music box is in good working condition. I believe it plays the music tune: Ave Maria, it is working fine. In the front it says: L'apparition de Lourdes. There are some signs of age. Bernadette and Mary have both been re-glued Also the part behind Mary has been re-glued as shown in the pictures. It is still a nice Vintage 1940 Lourdes Souvenir. The music box measures app. 6" or 15 cm tall.
In case you don't know the
story of Bernadette:
Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed
Virgin to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux.
The first apparition occurred 11 February, 1858.
There were eighteen in all; the last took place 16 July, of the same year.
Bernadette often fell into an ecstasy.
The mysterious vision she saw in the hollow of the
rock Massabielle was that of a young and beautiful lady. "Lovelier than I
have ever seen" said the child But the girl was the only one who saw
the vision, although sometimes many stood there with her. Now and then the
apparition spoke to the seer who also was the only one who heard the voice.
Thus, she one day told her to drink of a mysterious
fountain, in the grotto itself, the existence of which was unknown, and of
which there was no sign, but which immediately gushed forth.
On another occasion the apparition bade Bernadette
go and tell the Priest she wished a chapel to be built on the spot and processions to be made to the grotto.
At first the clergy were incredulous.
It was only four years later, in 1862, that the bishop of the diocese declared the faithful
"justified in believing
the reality of the apparition".
A basilica was built upon the rock of Massabielle by
M. Peyramale, the parish priest.
In 1873 the great "national" french pilgramages were
inaugurated. Three years later the basilica was consecrated and the statue solemnly crowned.
In 1883 the foundation stone of another church was
laid, as the first was no longer large enough. It was built at the foot of the
basilica and was consecrated
in 1901 and called the Church
of the Rosary.
Pope Leo XIII authorized a special office and a Mass, in commemoration of the apparition, and
in 1907 Pope Pius X
extended the observance of this feast to the entire Church; it is now observed
on 11 February.
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