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| Marian shrine grotto Firstly you should know what is the meaning of Marian shrine grotto? Marian shrine grotto was Catholic's unique place for pilgrimage, usually the site is build formed like the cave but there is also in real natural cave. In Indonesia was widely known as Mary's grotto ("gua Maria" in Indonesian language - bahasa) because of being placed the statue of blessed Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The place afterwards became the pilgrimage place of Catholics to bring them closer to Lord in a praying manner through the mediation of Mary and of course Jesus Christ. In the Catholic religious tradition, the existence of Marian grotto had the long history.
This website tried to put many information that concern with Mary's grotto, completed with the pilgrimage stories, the location or area and relevant information because most Catholics did not have enough information about Marian shrine grotto which on many places was full of religious values and maybe there you could feel the greatness work of the Lord through beauty of Indonesian nature and landscape. |
Blessed Virgin Mary made
apparitions several times to certain people. One of the most famous
apparitions was the apparitions of Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in cave
on the city of Lourdes France during 1858. The place afterwards became
the most popular Marian shrine pilgrimage in the world. This place then
became the inspiration to make similar pilgrimage site for local
Catholic community. From there, emerged the pilgrimage place of Marian
shrine grotto in another place in the world including in Indonesia.
On Indonesia, on Mary's
grotto you not only found statue of Virgin Mary, also usually along the
road heads to Mary's grotto was gotten by the cessation for the station
of the cross procession, and in several locations of Mary's grotto also
had the small church or chapel. On Indonesia the oldest and most famous
Mary's grotto was the Marian shrine Sendangsono in Central Java that age
more than one hundred years. Whereas the most exotic site perhaps the
Mary's grotto Tritis in Wonosari, south Yogyakarta, which is build on
real beautiful natural cave. Despite the location of Mary's grotto was
surrounded by beautiful landscape and scenery, especially in site that
far from the big city, Mary's grotto was not the place for recreation or
resort area, but the holy pilgrimage place, this often forgotten by the
person who visited which make their pilgrimage meaning became unclear.