FEAST OF THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN

In aliquibus locis, the Friday after Passion Sunday was celebrated as the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Church of the Holy Cross, Salamanca.

COLLECT

O God, in whose Passion the sword, according to the prophesy of Simeon, pierced through the most gentle soul of Mary, the sorrowful and glorious Virgin and Mother, mercifully grant that we, reverently commemorating her piercing though and suffering, may, by the glorious merits and intercessions of all the saints standing by the Cross, attain unto the happy effects of Thy Passion. Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.