HAND PAINTED PLASTER STATUE – 9 Inches High

Our Lady of Prompt Succor (French: Notre Dame du Prompt Secours) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a wooden devotional image of the Madonna and Child enshrined in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. The image is closely associated with Mother Saint Michel, the Superior of the New Orleans Ursulines.

STORY ABOUT HER
In 1727, a small group of French Ursuline sisters were sent to New Orleans to run the Royal Hospital and run the school. These Ursulines were the first religious women in what we know today as the United States. The Patroness of Louisiana and New Orleans emerged as an urgent request from the Ursuline sisters of New Orleans who feared for the existence of the order in that area.

It was thus that Sister San Miguel promised Our Lady that if she quickly moved all the obstacles, she would make her a statue and spread the devotion to Our Lady of Prompt Succor. Since then, the prayers to this dedication have produced many miracles.

Prompt Succor means “urgencies”, and this is what Our Lady gave to Mother Saint Michael. On December 31, 1810, Mother Saint Michael placed a new statue in the chapel of the convent of New Orleans, which the Bishop of Montpellier asked to bless. Since then, the Virgin Mary has been given public veneration under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Help.

PRAYER
God, who beholds us encompassed on all sides by dangers and miseries, grant us in your goodness, that the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, your only Son, may defend us from the malignant enemy, and protect us against all adversity; that she may ever by prompt succor, deliver us from all necessities of soul and body; and by her powerful hand, lead us in safety to the kingdom of heaven: Through Jesus Christ your Son, Amen.

SHRINES AT THE UNITED STATES
National Votive Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor in New Orleans, Louisiana.