O Mother of Perpetual Help,
Pray for Us.

About Our Lady of Perpetual Help

This devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help has been a source of comfort and hope to the faithful for centuries. Our Blessed Mother is the symbol of love, mercy, and intercession for all who seek her aid.

The Confraternity of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is an international organization with roots dating back to the late 1800s. According to tradition, the original icon was created in Crete in the 14th century, was stolen, and was eventually brought to the church of St. Matthew in Rome. For 300 years it resided in that church and survived the church’s destruction by Napoleon’s army in the late 1700s. Pope Pius IX entrusted the original icon to the Redemptorists in 1866 and with it the responsibility of “making her known throughout the world.” As a result, this image of Mary is the most recognizable image of the Mother of God in the world. Today the original icon is permanently enshrined in the Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Rome, Italy. Hundreds of thousands of people gather for the weekly devotions in honor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Redemptorists churches and parishes all over the world.

Under this Confraternity: Members are assured of the constant protection of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Members are endowed with an influence almost miraculous for the softening and converting of obstinate sinners. Members share in the indulgences and spiritual privileges granted to the members of the archconfraternity in Rome. Finally, by the express will of the Superior General of the Redemptorist Fathers and brothers, the members have a special share in the fruits and merits of the missions, pious exercises, apostolic labors, prayers, penances, and other good works without exception which are performed by the entire congregation of the Redemptorist Fathers and Brothers.