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“Our Lady of Victory” Statue

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  • 16825 S. Seton Avenue
    Emmitsburg, MD 21727

Our Lady of Victory statue was erected by the Sisters of Charity soon after the war in thanks to God for sparing St. Joseph’s College from the destruction of the Civil War.

Soon after the Civil War, the nuns of the Sisters of Charity erected a statue called Our Lady of Victory on the Emmitsburg campus of St. Joseph’s College. The sisters had promised to do so if God spared the college from the destruction of the Civil War. The Catholic Feast of Our Lady of Victory dates to 1571 and is held in thanksgiving for the victory of a Christian fleet over a Turkish armada in the Battle of Lepanto.

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