Our Lady of La Vang

In 1998, on the 200th anniversary of her first apparition, the image of the Virgin Mary, which had appeared to a group of martyrs in La Vang, Vietnam (and was known as Our Lady of La Vang), was transformed from a European woman into a Vietnamese woman. The change was initiated by Vietnamese Catholic...

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Published in:Boom 2015-12, Vol.5 (4), p.90-93
Main Author: Ninh, Thien-Huong T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian Americans
Catholicism
Mary (Virgin Mary)
Pilgrimages
Religious history
Saints
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Summary:In 1998, on the 200th anniversary of her first apparition, the image of the Virgin Mary, which had appeared to a group of martyrs in La Vang, Vietnam (and was known as Our Lady of La Vang), was transformed from a European woman into a Vietnamese woman. The change was initiated by Vietnamese Catholics in southern California, who then exported the Vietnamized image to Catholic communities in Vietnam and other parts of the world. Today, the image of Our Lady of La Vang has become a global representation of the Virgin Mary as an Asian woman
ISSN:2153-8018
2153-764X
DOI:10.1525/boom.2015.5.4.90