Our Lady of Good Counsel Poster

Our Lady of Good Counsel is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary inspired by a painting said to be miraculous. Housed in the thirteenth century Augustinian Church in Genazzano, near Rome, the fresco is executed on a thin layer of plaster, no thicker than an egg shell. According to tradition, on the Feast of St. Mark, April 25, 1467, the people in the town heard music coming from the area of the church. A mysterious cloud was then said to have descended over an unfinished wall of the parish church. In front of the townsfolk gathered there, the cloud dissipated and there on the wall appeared a small, but beautiful fresco of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. The people of the time believed that the work had been miraculously transported from Albania. They attributed to it healing properties, and many miracles were believed to have occurred in its presence.