Notre-Dame de Marienthal (Our Lady of Marienthal) is a Catholic pilgrimage church dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus. Located in Marienthal, in the Bas-Rhin department of France, it is administratively situated in the town of Haguenau. Pope Pius IX crowned the dolorous Marian image enshrined within in 1859. Pope Leo XIII elevated the status of the shrine to Minor basilica in 1892. The first sanctuary at this site was built around 1250 by the knight Albert of Haguenau (died in 1254), who had had a religious epiphany some ten years prior and had gathered a small community of faithful around him. This first sanctuary, called "Mary in the Valley", venerated a statue of the Madonna and Child which is not preserved today. The two statues that are venerated today, a Madonna and Child and a Pietà, date from the early 15th century. In the 18th century, the basilica also received precious gifts from queen consort Marie Leszczyńska. More information...
According to PR-model, basiliquemarienthal.fr is ranked 1,261,589th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 949,377th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before sak.ch and after navka.show in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
