This is Vatican News's own Saint of the Day entry on Our Lady of Aparecida, the Marian devotion and patroness of Brazil, published and maintained by the Vatican's own news service. As the Catholic Church's own institutional reference it is the correct source for how the Vatican itself currently presents this devotion to a general readership. Its limit is that it is a brief institutional reference entry, not an independent scholarly study of the devotion's history or its social role in Brazilian Catholicism, so a claim needing deeper historical or sociological analysis of the Aparecida devotion needs an academic source in addition to this institutional page.
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Vatican News's own official entry, the primary institutional record maintained by the Holy See's own news outlet. NotesVatican News's own Saint of the Day entry on Our Lady of Aparecida; a continuously maintained Catholic institutional reference page, not an independent scholarly study.
Citation
AuthorVatican News
PublisherVatican News
URLhttps://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/12/our-lady-of-aparecida.html
Source Typereligious body
Claims Backed By This Source (32 claims)
This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds, 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Cities, 13 claims: 6 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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