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Notre Dame du Liban, Harissa, Keserwan, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon
Commemorated on First Sunday of May
In 1904, the Catholic Church celebrated the 50th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854. As in Chile and elsewhere, Catholic leaders in Lebanon decided to mark the occasion in a really big way, by erecting a monumental statue of Mary Immaculate. Elias Hoyek, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and Carlos Duval, apostolic delegate to Lebanon, chose the name Our Lady of Lebanon and the site on the Rock of Harissa overlooking the city of Jounieh near the Mediterranean Sea. The bronze statue made in France depicts Mary with outstretched hands, as on the Miraculous Medal and the Immaculata Column in Rome. Weighing ten tons, it stands 28 feet high atop a 66' stone pedestal of a spiraling conical shape. Patriarch Hoyek inaugurated the shine on May 3, 1908, the first Sunday in May, celebrated as Our Lady of Lebanon's feast day ever since, not only in Lebanon but in the Lebanese Catholic Diaspora throughout the world.
Sources:
The Lady of Lebanon, www.harissa.info
"Harissa, Lebanon," Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harissa,_Lebanon (photo by FunkMunk, 2005)
http://www.wherewewalked.info/feasts/05-May/1st_sun_may.htm
http://www.wherewewalked.info/feasts/05-May/1st_sun_may.htm