MARIAZELL
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 709
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MARIAZELL
, a village of Austria, in Styria, 89 m
.
N. of Graz
.
Pop
.
(1900), 1499
.
It is picturesquely situated in the valley of the Salza, amid the north Styrian Alps
.
Its entire claim to notice lies in the fact that it is the most frequented sanctuary in Austria, being visited annually by about 200,000 pilgrims
.
The object of veneration is a miracle-working image of the Virgin, carved in lime- See also: - TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
, and about 18 in. high
.
This was presented to the place in 1157, and is now enshrined in a chapel lavishly adorned with objects of silver and other costly materials
.
The large See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of which the chapel forms part was erected in 1644 as an expansion of a smaller church built by See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
I., See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
of Hungary, after a victory over the Turks in 1363
.
In the vicinity of Mariazell is the pretty Alpine lake of Erlafsee
.
See M
.
M
.
Rabenlehrer, Mariazell, Osterreichs Loreto ( Vienna, 1891) ; and O
.
Eigner, Geschichte des aufgeshpbenen Benedictinerstiftes Mariazell (Vienna, 1900)
.
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