Fit for a Queen: Mary's Greatest Basilica

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🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Why would Catholics build a whole basilica dedicated the Blessed Virgin Mary? Isn’t this distracting from Jesus? Shouldn’t we be building churches in honor of Jesus, not Mary?

And why would the Catholic Church have a special liturgical feast day celebrating the dedication of this Marian basilica?

In this special edition, we go to the principle church dedicated to Mary all the world, as we prepare to celebrate on August 5 the memorial of the dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major’s - one of Dr. Sri’s favorite churches in all of Rome.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:17.0	Why would the Catholic Church have a whole Basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Isn't that a distraction from our relationship
0:26.4	with Jesus? Shouldn't we be building churches in honor of Christ, not of Mary?
0:32.4	Well did you know that the Catholic Church has a feast
0:34.4	day coming up here on August 5th? A whole feast day dedicated to the
0:39.0	celebration of St Mary Major's Basilica in Rome.
0:43.7	It's the Principal Church in Rome and really the whole world dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
0:48.9	Mary and I want to take you there right to the doorsteps of this Basilica for a special edition of
0:55.2	all things Catholic.
0:58.2	Welcome to the special edition of all things Catholic. We are here in the great city of
1:02.3	Rome standing outside the
1:04.6	major Basilica of St Mary majors and we're on pilgrimage here we've had an awesome day
1:10.0	today haven't we we got got up really early. You followed the strategy perfectly
1:15.4	well to make it to the front row of St. Peter Square for the people audience
1:21.3	18 years in a row we've made it to the front row so I'm glad to know you're not the first group to fail
1:27.8	So but it was awesome to see Pope Francis passed by us and here we are now on the other side of Rome we're on
1:34.0	the Escaline Hill here and we're at the principal church dedicated to the
1:39.4	Blessed Virgin Mary. Inside this church when you you walk inside this church, you're going to see a beautiful
1:46.5	mosaic of Mary behind the main altar. You'll see many scenes depicted in mosaics, in statues and in in painting so lots of images of Mary
1:56.6	Mary's life Mary crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth Mary at the
2:00.8	Annunciation Mary giving birth to Jesus, lots of stuff about Mary here, but some people may wonder,
2:08.0	why would you build a whole Basilica dedicated to Mary? I mean, shouldn't we be just focused on Jesus? Why do
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