The following list enumerates a selection of Marian, Josephian, and Christological images venerated in the

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, authorised by a

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who has officially granted a papal bull of

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to be carried out either by the

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, his

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or a

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Papal bull for the Canonical Coronation of Virgen de los Remedios de Pampanga from Pope Pius 12th

Monseñor Riberi en la Coronación Canónica de la Virgen del Monte en Bolaños (Ciudad Real)

The prescription of the solemn rite to crown venerated images is embedded in the ''

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'' published by the Holy Office on 25 May 1981. Prior to 1989, pontifical decrees concerning the authorization of canonical coronations were handwritten on

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. After 1989, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments began issuing the specific recognition to crown a religious image, spelling out its approved devotional title and authorizing papal legate. Several venerated images of

Jesus Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

and

Saint Joseph Joseph (; el, Ἰωσήφ, translit=Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. The Gospels also name some brothers of ...

have also been granted a pontifical coronation. __TOC__

Pontifically crowned Marian images

Algeria

Andorra

Argentina

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bolivia

Brazil

Canada

Chile

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cuba

Czech Republic

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

France

Germany

Guatemala

India

Italy

Japan

Kuwait

Lithuania

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Spain

Sri Lanka

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States of America

Uruguay

Venezuela

Pontifically crowned Christological images

The list below enumerates approved Christological images with a written and expressed pontifical recognition and were granted a canonical coronation. Three images—the Black Christ of

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, the

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image of

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and Black Nazarene of

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—are still pending at the Holy Office and have not yet received a pontifical decree of coronation.

Pontifically crowned Josephian images

The list below enumerates approved Josephian images with a written and expressed pontifical recognition and were granted a canonical coronation. Four images—The San Giuseppe of Ognina,

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(

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); San Jose of Cadiz and

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and

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(

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)—are still pending at the Holy Office and have not yet received a pontifical decree of coronation.Episcopal Coronations only for Bogota, Colombia in 1779 by the Bishop of Popayan and Zacatecas in May 1790, Guanajuato, Mexico in July 1790. Similar episcopal coronations only for Cadiz, Spain and Parañaque, Philippines. The Josephian statues of Ognina and Le Mosse have no records, (ordinary or notarized) Pontifical coronation exist in Rome, rather were crowned in public as an offering of the

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to the Pope in the Vatican — https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/534f4416f66203209553ad0e00efcad9/mdo-2150243.jpg

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