Our Lady Of Sorrows was initially named Our Virgin of the Seven Sorrows (or Swords), but Pope Pio X (1913), fixed the liturgical feast on September 15 and the name we have today. Our Lady Of Sorrows has a broken heart by seven swords, because seven were the most principal sorrows during her life: the prophecy of the old Simeon, the exile in Egypt, the loss of Jesus in the Jerusalem’s Temple, the Way of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the Deposition from the Cross and the Burial. Our iconography, often, represents St. Mary with one sword, only the sorrow of the Simeon’s prophecy (the statues of the 19th century). 2009-02-09T15:25:23Z http://goldhands.livejournal.com/8885.html jakesutton jakesutton