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• Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• Friday in Passion Week, commemorating the sorrow of Mary during the Passion , and Death of Christ; instituted by the provincial synod of Cologne in 1413 to expiate the crimes of the iconoclast Hussites, being termed the Compassion or Transfixion; extended to the entire Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1727. The Stabat Mater is sung during Mass and Office.
• September 15, in devotion to the seven dolors of Mary:
• the prophecy of Simeon
• flight into Egypt
• loss of the Child Jesus at Jerusalem
• meeting Jesus on the road to Calvary
• standing at the foot of the Cross
• the descent of Jesus from the Cross
• His burial

It was first granted to the Servites in 1668, and extended to the whole Church by Pope Pius VII in 1814.