Someone posted a painting of Our Mother of Perpetual Succour on Facebook, and I was wondering if she was the same as Our Lady of Good Help. Both are Holy Mary, but their representations are not the same.

Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours est une icône byzantine très ancienne (souvent attribuée au XIVe siècle) représentant Marie avec l’enfant Jésus et deux anges. Elle symbolise l’aide constante et le réconfort.

Notre-Dame du Bon Secours (ou de Bon-Secours) est un titre lié à la protection, particulièrement vénéré par les marins. Au Québec, cela fait le plus souvent référence à la célèbre Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours située dans le Vieux-Montréal.

Our Mother of Perpetual Succour (Latin: Nostra Mater de Perpetuo Succursu), colloquially known as Our Lady of Perpetual Help, is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a 15th-century Byzantine icon and a purported Marian apparition. The image was enshrined in the Church of San Matteo in Via Merulana from 1499 to 1798 and is today permanently enshrined in the Church of Saint Alphonsus of Liguori in Rome, where the novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help is prayed weekly.

Pope Pius IX granted a pontifical decree of canonical coronation, along with the official, formalized title Nostra Mater de Perpetuo Succursu, on 5 May 1866. The Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, Cardinal Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei, executed the rite of coronation on 23 June 1867.

The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer serve as custodians of the icon. The image is also known as the Virgin of the Passion in Eastern Orthodoxy. Novena prayers are held before its feast day on 27 June every year. Due to promotion by the Redemptorist priests, the image has gained popularity among Western and Eastern Catholics. Modern reproductions are often displayed in residential homes, commercial establishments, and public transportation.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor

The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, “Our Lady of Good Help”) is a church in the Old Montreal district of Montreal, Quebec. One of the oldest churches in Montreal, it was built in 1771 over the ruins of an earlier chapel. The church is located at 400 Saint Paul Street East at Bonsecours Street, just north of the Bonsecours Market in the borough of Ville-Marie

St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, the first teacher in the colony of Ville-Marie and the founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame, rallied the colonists to build a chapel in 1655. In 1673, returning from France, Bourgeoys brought a wooden image of Our Lady of Good Help; the stone church was completed in 1678. It burned in 1754, the reliquary and statue being rescued and placed above the entrance of the rebuilt church of 1771.

Settlements

• Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Quebec, Canada; a municipality in Outaouais; formerly Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-Partie-Nord, formerly Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-la-Petite-Nation
• Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Quebec, Canada; a former municipality, merged into Richelieu in 2000

Churches and chapels

1. Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, Old Port, Old Montreal, Ville-Marie, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2. La Chapelle de Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours (Chapel of Our Lady of Good Help), St. Norbert, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3. Église de Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, L’Islet, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Canada; see List of historic places in Chaudière-Appalaches
4. Notre-Dame du bon secours Church, La Désirade, French West Indies, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean; in overseas France
5. Basilica of Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, France; several basilicas, see List of basilicas in France
6. Basilique Notre-Dame de Bonsecours, Bonsecours, Rouen, Seine—Maritime, France
7. Église Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Bercy, Paris, France; the 17th century predecessor to the 19th century Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Bercy
8. Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours de Salsignac, Antignac, Cantal, Auvergne, France
9. Notre Dame de Bon Secours chapel, Saint-Jérôme Church (Toulouse), Toulouse, France
10. Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours, Granges de Dauban, Banon, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
11. Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Angles, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
12. Notre Dame de Bon Secours chapel, Le Parcq, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
13. Notre-Dame du Bon Secours, Estocq, Monsures, Sommes, Hauts-de-France, France
14. Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Chapel of Saint-Barthélémy, Château de Châtillon-d’Azergues, Châtillon, Rhône, France
15. Chapelle Notre-Dame de bon-secours, Tréguier Cathedral, Tréguier, Côtes-d’Armor, France

Schools

• Collège Notre dame du bon secours, Pignon, Saint-Raphael, Nord, Haiti
• Lycée privé Notre-Dame de Bon Secours [fr], Perpignan, France; see List of schools in France\

Other uses

• Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bon Secours de Blauvac, Blauvac, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France; see List of Cistercian monasteries in France
• Notre Dame de Bon Secours, or Our Lady of Prompt Succor, a devotional sculpture in Louisiana

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