The novena is a form of devotion popular in many countries. The history goes back to the 17th century, when novenas became a devotion preparing major feast days or festivals or important decisions in one's life. During nine days, people say specific prayers depending on the scope or meaning of the novena, often in connection with special indulgences. Novena, from nine days, has biblical roots and reflects the nine days of preparation the apostles and Mary underwent before they received the Holy Spirit (Acts 1, 13f).
The purpose of novenas is one of preparation, purification and concentration. They help people to better celebrate an important feast day or to better make decisions with the help of God and in full possession of spiritual strength. It is an opportunity to live a specially graced time, and is like a spiritual pilgrimage to a center of even greater grace. (From Marian Library's All About Mary website.)
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Novena en honor de Nuestra Señora de la Nube: salus infirmorum, ora pro nobis!
Novena to Our Lady of the Cloud, often said in Peru and Ecuador. 56 pages.
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Novena de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación
Novena to Our Lady of Consolation, whose feast is either the fifth Sunday of August or, if only four Sundays in August, the first Sunday of September. 38 pages.
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Novena a Maria Santisima con el glorioso titulo de los Remedios
Novena to Our Lady of Remedy. 24 pages.
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Novena que en honor de la Santisima Virgen Maria bajo el titulo de la Piedad, compuso ... una religiosa de S. Pascual de Aranjuez
Novena to Our Lady of Mercy as written by a nun at the monastery of Saint Pascual de Aranjuez. 62 pages.
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Novena a la Santisima Virgen Maria, Madre de Dios, en veneracion de su dichoso transito, Asuncion y gloriosa Coronación ...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary prayed between the vigil of the Assumption (August 14) and the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 22). 16 pages.
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Novena a la milagrosa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, impresa por su hermandad establecida en la Iglesia de San Alberto de esta ciudad.
Novena to Nuestra Señora de Valvanera by the Hermandad de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, a confraternity established in the Iglesia de San Alberto in Seville, published and distributed by A. Izquierdo in Seville. 36 pages, with an engraved frontispiece of Nuestra Señora de Valvanera. Ex libris stamp of Dr. Manuel Segura, Sevilla in blue ink with num. 516 handwritten on the title page.
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Devota novena al Purisimo e Inmaculado Corazon de Maria por la conversion de los pecadores
Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, whose feast is the second Saturday after Pentecost. 20 pages.
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Novena de la Virgen Santisima de Jerusalen, patrona de la villa de Artajona, a la que precede una noticia de su venida y portentosas apariciones
Novena to Our Lady of Jerusalem, patroness of Artajona, Spain. 42 pages.
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Novena a N[ues]tro Padre Jesus y su Santisima Madre en el doloroso y afligido paso ... que se veneran en la iglesia parroquial del Sr. S. Lorenzo de esta ciudad de Cadiz ...
Lenten novena said at the Parish of Saint Lawrence, Cadiz, Spain. 31 pages.
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Novena de Maria Santisima del Puy, patrona de la ciudad de Estella ...
Novena to Our Lady of the Puy, patroness of Estella, Navarra, Spain. 40 pages.
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Novena historico-doctrinal de la Madre de Dios, Nuestra Señora del Refugio: que con el titulo de la Divina Peregrina se venera en el Colegio Seminario de Misioneros Apostólicos de la regular observancia de N. P. S. Francisco de la villa de Sahagun
Novena to Our Lady of Refuge as said in Sahagún, Spain. 96 pages.
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Novena en honor de Maria Santisima Nuestra Señora, que con el titulo de la Alegria se venera en la iglesia parroquial de S. Bartolome de esta ciudad de Sevilla ...
Novena to Our Lady of Joy as celebrated in the Parish of Saint Bartholomew, Seville, Spain. 70 pages.
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Novenario a la prodigiosa imagen de la Madre Virgen Santisima del Patrocinio, venerada en ... villa de Cardona ...
Novena to Our Lady in Patrocinio, Spain. 16 pages.