Mother of Mercy: Our Lady of Ostrabrama | Silver foiled lithography | Icon Reproduction | Size: 5 1/4"x4 1/2"

Mother of Mercy Our Lady of Ostrabrama

On the interior facade of the "Gate of the Dawn" in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania, there appears the inscription: MOTHER OF MERCY, WE FLY BACK TO YOUR PATRONAGE. This inscription is not only a prayerful invocation to her "who shines in the Gate of the Dawn" [words from a Polish epic poem], but a witness to over 300 years of veneration of the Virgin Mary as the "Mother of Mercy."