Deepertruth: Journey with Mary as tonight we find ourselves in China

During the Boxer Rebellion, a great number of soldiers attacked the village of Donglu.  Hebei. The village consisted of a small community of Christians founded by the Vincentian Order of priests.  the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in white, Saint Michael the Archangel who chased away the soldiers who fired at the Virgin Mary

The local priest, Father Rene Flament of the  

Accordingly, Donglu became a place of pilgrimage in 1924. The image was blessed and promulgated by Pope Pius XI in 1928. At the close of the 1924 Shanghai Synod of Bishops in China, the first national conference of bishops in the country,  Cardinal   along with all the bishops of China, consecrated the Chinese people to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1941, Pope Pius XII designated the feast day as an official feast of the Catholic liturgical calendar.

Alternatively in 1976,  now venerated in the “National Shrine of Our Lady of China”, which was constructed in 1913. In 2020, the former Bishop of Chiayi, requested a coronation for the Marian image, which was granted and merited a decree of Pontifical coronation from Pope Francis on 19 February 2021. The decree was released to the Taiwanese media on 2 March 2021. The image is then crowned on 14 August 2022.