In 1960 a religious house was opened in Keren, 91 km from Asmara. By 1965 this monastic house already had sufficient local vocations and a college was started for aspirants to the religious life. \u2026 the monks have the responsibility the for the shrine of Mariam Dearit. This shrine is a statue of the Virgin Mary that is inside the cavity of a 500-year-old baobab tree.<\/p>\n
People have venerated Our Lady of Grace\u2013Mariam Dearit\u2013here since 1881. On May 29th tens of thousands of people, both come from all over Eritrea in pilgrimage to the shrine<\/p>\n
The biggest miracle happened during World War II. Three Italian soldiers who were defending Keren were taken unawares by an English airplane and ran to look for cover. They ran to the cavity in the middle of the great baobab tree at the foot of the statue of Our Lady. The airplane dropped a large bomb which split the big tree and fell in the middle of the three soldiers who were hiding there. It made a hissing sound but did not explode. Even now you can see the big hole made by the bomb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sist s\u00f8ndag (29. mai) markerte de eritreiske katolikkene i v\u00e5r menighet Mariam Daarit, og da jeg spurte hva dette egentlig var, fikk jeg heftet dere ser over (p\u00e5 tigrigna og engelsk). Det handler om en nonne i Frankrike som hadde visjoner m\u00f8tte jomfru Maria flere ganger i 1830; hellige medaljer som ble laget, og en […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The most prominent site is the shrine of St. Mary of Da\u2019arit popularly known as Mariam Da\u2019arit (Madonna of the Baobab), about 2.3km to the north. The shrine is inside a large Baobab grotto, which was inaugurated by the fifth Vicar Apostolic Msgr. Touvier on July 18, 1881. Gradually \u201cMariam Da\u2019arit\u201d has become a popular open-air shrine, a sign of unity and religious devotion. Today the shrine encompasses an area of over 10 hectares where oranges, guavas are grown in orchards. On 29 May every year, there\u2019s pilgrimage to the site, and hundreds of people congregate to dance and sing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n