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Evviva Maria is a usual thanksgiving cry used by Roman Catholics as an expression of popular devotion in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.[1] It is a devotion promoted by a hymn composed by Capuchin friar Leonard of Port-Maurice at the beginning of the 18th century and associated with the devotion the Holy Name of Jesus and the Holy Name of Mary encouraged by various Popes since the time of Pius VI.[2]
- ^ Dillon, George F. (1884). The Virgin Mother of Good Counsel. A History of the Ancient Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzano. Burns and Oates. p. 354.
- ^ Heuser, Herman Joseph (1950). The American Ecclesiastical Review. Catholic University of America Press. p. 10.