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==Europe==
==Europe==
'''Belgium'''


* Belgium
* La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse Procession
* Assesse (Namur): Chapelle de la Vierge Noire, Maillen
* Brussels : St. Catherine Church
* Halle (Flemish Brabant) : Sint-Martinusbasiliek
* Liège: La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse,
* Scherpenheuvel-Zichem: Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel
* Tournai: Our Lady of Flanders in Tournai Cathedral
* Notre-Dame des Récollets Church, Verviers


La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse Procession
'''Croatia'''
Assesse (Namur): Chapelle de la Vierge Noire, Maillen
Brussels : St. Catherine Church
Halle (Flemish Brabant) : Sint-Martinusbasiliek
Liège: La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse,
Scherpenheuvel-Zichem: Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel
Tournai: Our Lady of Flanders in Tournai Cathedral
Notre-Dame des Récollets Church, Verviers


*Croatia
* Tindari Madonna Bruna: restoration work in the 1990s found a medieval statue with later additions. Nigra sum sed formosa, meaning "I am black but beautiful" (from the Song of Songs, 1:5), is inscribed round a newer base.
* Marija Bistrica: Our Lady of Bistrica, Queen of Croatia


Tindari Madonna Bruna: restoration work in the 1990s found a medieval statue with later additions. Nigra sum sed formosa, meaning "I am black but beautiful" (from the Song of Songs, 1:5), is inscribed round a newer base.
'''Czech Republic'''
Marija Bistrica: Our Lady of Bistrica, Queen of Croatia
* Brno: Assumption of Virgin Mary Minor Basilica, St Thomas's Abbey, Brno


* Czech Republic
'''France'''
Brno: Assumption of Virgin Mary Minor Basilica, St Thomas's Abbey, Brno


* France
* Image of the Virgin of Candelaria, in the Basilica of Candelaria (Tenerife).
* La Vierge noire de Guingamp
* Aix-en-Provence, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame des Graces, Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix[3]
* Arbois (Jura)
* Arceau (Côte-d'Or)
* Arconsat (Puy-de-Dôme)
* Arfeuilles (Allier) : statue of the 13th Century
* Aurillac, (Cantal): Notre-Dame des Neiges [4]
* Avioth (Meuse)
* Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise (Puy-de-Dôme) : Saint-André Church, Notre-Dame de Vassivière
* Besson (Allier) : statue of the 12th Century
* Boëge (Haute-Savoie) : Notre-Dame-des-Voirons Chapel
* Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) : 13th Century
* Chartres (Eure-et-Loir): crypt of the Cathedral of Chartres. See [[Chartres Cathedral]].
* Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
* Dijon (Côte-d'Or)
* Chantemerle-les-Blés, Drôme
* Dunkerque (Nord) : Chapelle des Dunes
* Guingamp (Côtes-d'Armor) : Basilica of Notre Dame de Bon Secours.
* La Chapelle-Geneste (Haute-Loire: Notre Dame de La Chapelle Geneste[7]
* Laon (Aisne) : Notre-Dame Cathedral, statue of 1848
* Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) : statue near the Graville Abbey (Abbaye de Graville)
* Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) : Notre-Dame du Puy-en-Velay [8][9][10]
* Liesse-Notre-Dame (Aisne) : Notre-Dame de Liesse, statue destroyed in 1793, copy of 1857
* Lyon (Rhône) : Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
* Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame-de-Confession, Abbey of St. Victor ; Notre-Dame d'Huveaune, Saint-Giniez Church
* Mauriac, Cantal: Notre Dame des Miracle
* Mende (Lozère) : Cathedral (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende)
* Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) : St. Michel Church
* Meymac Abbey (Meymac, Corrèze)
* Montmerle-sur-Saône (Ain) : bronze Madonna
* Myans (Savoie)
* Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine): Notre Dame de Bonne Délivrance, formerly located at Saint-Étienne-des-Grès in Paris
* Quimper (Finistère) : Eglise de Guéodet, nommée encore Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité
* Riom,(Puy-de-Dôme): Notre-Dame du Marthuret
* Rocamadour (Lot) : Our Lady of Rocamadour
* Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes)
* Seyssel (Haute-Savoie)
* Soissons (Aisne) : statue of the 12th Century
* Tarascon, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame du Château
* Thuret (Puy-de-Dôme)
* Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) : Notre-Dame de la Daurade
* Vaison-la-Romaine (Vaucluse) : statue on a hill
* Vézelay (Yonne)
* Vichy (Allier) : Saint-Blaise Church


Image of the Virgin of Candelaria, in the Basilica of Candelaria (Tenerife).
'''Germany'''
La Vierge noire de Guingamp
Aix-en-Provence, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame des Graces, Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix[3]
Arbois (Jura)
Arceau (Côte-d'Or)
Arconsat (Puy-de-Dôme)
Arfeuilles (Allier) : statue of the 13th Century
Aurillac, (Cantal): Notre-Dame des Neiges [4]
Avioth (Meuse)
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise (Puy-de-Dôme) : Saint-André Church, Notre-Dame de Vassivière
Besson (Allier) : statue of the 12th Century
Boëge (Haute-Savoie) : Notre-Dame-des-Voirons Chapel
Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) : 13th Century
Chartres (Eure-et-Loir): crypt of the Cathedral of Chartres. See [[Chartres Cathedral]].
Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
Dijon (Côte-d'Or)
Chantemerle-les-Blés, Drôme
Dunkerque (Nord) : Chapelle des Dunes
Guingamp (Côtes-d'Armor) : Basilica of Notre Dame de Bon Secours.
La Chapelle-Geneste (Haute-Loire: Notre Dame de La Chapelle Geneste[7]
Laon (Aisne) : Notre-Dame Cathedral, statue of 1848
Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) : statue near the Graville Abbey (Abbaye de Graville)
Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) : Notre-Dame du Puy-en-Velay [8][9][10]
Liesse-Notre-Dame (Aisne) : Notre-Dame de Liesse, statue destroyed in 1793, copy of 1857
Lyon (Rhône) : Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame-de-Confession, Abbey of St. Victor ; Notre-Dame d'Huveaune, Saint-Giniez Church
Mauriac, Cantal: Notre Dame des Miracle
Mende (Lozère) : Cathedral (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende)
Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) : St. Michel Church
Meymac Abbey (Meymac, Corrèze)
Montmerle-sur-Saône (Ain) : bronze Madonna
Myans (Savoie)
Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine): Notre Dame de Bonne Délivrance, formerly located at Saint-Étienne-des-Grès in Paris
Quimper (Finistère) : Eglise de Guéodet, nommée encore Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité
Riom,(Puy-de-Dôme): Notre-Dame du Marthuret
Rocamadour (Lot) : Our Lady of Rocamadour
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes)
Seyssel (Haute-Savoie)
Soissons (Aisne) : statue of the 12th Century
Tarascon, (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame du Château
Thuret (Puy-de-Dôme)
Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) : Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Vaison-la-Romaine (Vaucluse) : statue on a hill
Vézelay (Yonne)
Vichy (Allier) : Saint-Blaise Church


*Germany
* Altötting (Bavaria) : Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of the Miraculous Image)
* Beilstein (Rhineland-Palatinate) : Karmeliterkirche St. Joseph
* Bielefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia)
* Düsseldorf-Benrath (North Rhine-Westphalia) : Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia
* Hirschberg an der Bergstraße (Baden-Württemberg) : Wallfahrtskirche St. Johannes Baptist
* Schloss Hohenstein, Upper Franconia (Bavaria)
* Köln (Nord Rhein Westfalen) : St. Maria in der Kupfergasse
* Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) : Schloss- und Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Ludwigshafen)
* Mainau (Baden-Württemberg) : Schlosskirche St. Marien
* Munich (Bavaria) : Theatine Church ; St. Boniface's Abbey
* Rastatt (Baden-Württemberg) : Einsiedelner Kapelle
* Regensburg (Bavaria) : Regensburg Cathedral
* Remagen (Rhineland-Palatinate) : Kapelle Schwarze Madonna
* Spabrücken (Rhineland-Palatinate)
* Stetten ob Lontal, Niederstotzingen (Baden-Württemberg)
* Windhausen in Boppard-Herschwiesen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
* Wipperfürth (North Rhine-Westphalia) : St. Johannes, Kreuzberg
* Wuppertal-Beyenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)


Altötting (Bavaria) : Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of the Miraculous Image)
'''Ireland'''
Beilstein (Rhineland-Palatinate) : Karmeliterkirche St. Joseph
Bielefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Düsseldorf-Benrath (North Rhine-Westphalia) : Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia
Hirschberg an der Bergstraße (Baden-Württemberg) : Wallfahrtskirche St. Johannes Baptist
Schloss Hohenstein, Upper Franconia (Bavaria)
Köln (Nord Rhein Westfalen) : St. Maria in der Kupfergasse
Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) : Schloss- und Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Ludwigshafen)
Mainau (Baden-Württemberg) : Schlosskirche St. Marien
Munich (Bavaria) : Theatine Church ; St. Boniface's Abbey
Rastatt (Baden-Württemberg) : Einsiedelner Kapelle
Regensburg (Bavaria) : Regensburg Cathedral
Remagen (Rhineland-Palatinate) : Kapelle Schwarze Madonna
Spabrücken (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Stetten ob Lontal, Niederstotzingen (Baden-Württemberg)
Windhausen in Boppard-Herschwiesen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Wipperfürth (North Rhine-Westphalia) : St. Johannes, Kreuzberg
Wuppertal-Beyenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)


* Ireland
* Dublin (Leinster) : Our Lady of Dublin in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church


Dublin (Leinster) : Our Lady of Dublin in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church
'''Italy'''


* Italy
* Biella (Piedmont) : Black Virgin of Oropa, Sacro Monte di Oropa
* Canneto Valley near Settefrati (Lazio) : Madonna di Canneto
* Casale Monferrato (Piedmont) : Our Lady of Crea. In the hillside Sanctuary at Crea (Santuario di Crea), a cedar-wood figure, said to be one of three Black Virgins brought to Italy from the Holy Land c345 by St. Eusebius.
* Castelmonte, Prepotto (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
* Loreto (Marche) : Basilica della Santa Casa
* Naples (Campania) : Santuario-Basilica SS Carmine Maggiore
* Positano (Campania) : Located in the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the story of how it got there - sailors shouting "Posa, posa!" ("Put it down, put it down!") - gave the town its name.
* San Severo (Apulia) : "La Madonna del Soccorso" (The Madonna of Succor), St. Severinus Abbot and Saint Severus Bishop Faeto. Statue in gold garments, object of a major 3 day festival that attracts over 350,000 people to this small town. The infant Jesus is white.
* Seminara (Calabria) : Madonna near di seminara, Maria SS.Dei poveri
* Tindari (Sicily) : Our Lady of Tindari
* Venice (Veneto) : Madonna della Salute, Santa Maria della Salute
* Viggiano (Basilicata)


Biella (Piedmont) : Black Virgin of Oropa, Sacro Monte di Oropa
'''Kosovo'''
Canneto Valley near Settefrati (Lazio) : Madonna di Canneto
* Vitina-Letnica: Church of the Black Madonna, where Mother Teresa is believed to have heard her calling.
Casale Monferrato (Piedmont) : Our Lady of Crea. In the hillside Sanctuary at Crea (Santuario di Crea), a cedar-wood figure, said to be one of three Black Virgins brought to Italy from the Holy Land c345 by St. Eusebius.
Castelmonte, Prepotto (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Loreto (Marche) : Basilica della Santa Casa
Naples (Campania) : Santuario-Basilica SS Carmine Maggiore
Positano (Campania) : Located in the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the story of how it got there - sailors shouting "Posa, posa!" ("Put it down, put it down!") - gave the town its name.
San Severo (Apulia) : "La Madonna del Soccorso" (The Madonna of Succor), St. Severinus Abbot and Saint Severus Bishop Faeto. Statue in gold garments, object of a major 3 day festival that attracts over 350,000 people to this small town. The infant Jesus is white.
Seminara (Calabria) : Madonna near di seminara, Maria SS.Dei poveri
Tindari (Sicily) : Our Lady of Tindari
Venice (Veneto) : Madonna della Salute, Santa Maria della Salute
Viggiano (Basilicata)


* Kosovo
'''Luxembourg'''


Vitina-Letnica: Church of the Black Madonna, where Mother Teresa is believed to have heard her calling.
* Esch-sur-Sûre
* Luxembourg : Luxembourg-Grund


* Luxembourg
'''Lithuania'''


Esch-sur-Sûre
* Vilnius : Ausros Vartai, The Gates of Dawn, St Theresa
Luxembourg : Luxembourg-Grund


* Lithuania
'''Macedonia'''


Vilnius : Ausros Vartai, The Gates of Dawn, St Theresa
* Kališta, Monastery : Madonna icon in the Nativity of Our Most Holy Mother of God church


* Macedonia
'''Malta'''


Kališta, Monastery : Madonna icon in the Nativity of Our Most Holy Mother of God church
* Ħamrun : a medieval painting of a Black Madonna rests in a small church, with the church being possibly the oldest one in the area, originally built in honor of St. Nicholas. Brought to Malta by a merchant in the year 1630, the painting is of a statue found in Atocha, a parish in Madrid, Spain, and is widely known as Il-Madonna tas-Samra. (This can mean 'tanned Madonna', 'brown Madonna', or 'Madonna of Samaria'). She may also be called Madonna ta' Atoċja, corresponding to the Spanish Nuestra Señora de Atocha. There were celebrations in 2005, the painting's 375th year in Malta.


* Malta
'''Poland'''


Ħamrun : a medieval painting of a Black Madonna rests in a small church, with the church being possibly the oldest one in the area, originally built in honor of St. Nicholas. Brought to Malta by a merchant in the year 1630, the painting is of a statue found in Atocha, a parish in Madrid, Spain, and is widely known as Il-Madonna tas-Samra. (This can mean 'tanned Madonna', 'brown Madonna', or 'Madonna of Samaria'). She may also be called Madonna ta' Atoċja, corresponding to the Spanish Nuestra Señora de Atocha. There were celebrations in 2005, the painting's 375th year in Malta.
* Częstochowa (Silesian Voivodeship) : Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska)


* Poland
'''Portugal'''


Częstochowa (Silesian Voivodeship) : Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska)
'''Nazaré (Oeste Subregion) : Nossa Senhora da Nazaré; see: the legend of Nazaré'''


* Portugal
'''Russia'''


Nazaré (Oeste Subregion) : Nossa Senhora da Nazaré; see: the legend of Nazaré
* Kostroma (Kostroma Oblast) : Theotokos of St. Theodore also known as Our Lady of St. Theodore (Федоровская Богоматерь), in Theophany Monastery


* Russia
'''Serbia'''


Kostroma (Kostroma Oblast) : Theotokos of St. Theodore also known as Our Lady of St. Theodore (Федоровская Богоматерь), in Theophany Monastery
* Apatin (Vojvodina) : Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church


* Serbia
'''Slovenia'''


Apatin (Vojvodina) : Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
* Koprivna, Črna na Koroškem: St. Anne's Church, Koprivna - the altar of Black Madonna


* Slovenia
'''Spain'''


Koprivna, Črna na Koroškem: St. Anne's Church, Koprivna - the altar of Black Madonna
* Andújar (Jaén) : Our Lady of Cabeza
* Chipiona (Cádiz) : The Virgin of Regla
* Coria (Cáceres) : Our Lady of Argeme
* El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) : The Virgin of the Miracles (Virgen de los milagros)
* Guadalupe, Cáceres : Our Lady of Guadalupe
* Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) : Nuestra Señora de la Merced (Our Lady Of Mercy)
* Madrid (Madrid) : Our Lady of Atocha
* Majorca (Balearic Islands) : Virgen de Lluc, Lluc Monastery
* Monistrol de Montserrat (Catalonia) : Virgin of Montserrat in the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat
* Ponferrada (León) : Virgin of la Encina
* Salamanca (Salamanca) : Virgen de la Peña de Francia (The Virgin of France's Rock)
* Santa María de Guadalupe (Cáceres) : Our Lady of Guadalupe
* Tenerife (Canary Islands) : Virgin of Candelaria
* Toledo (Toledo) : Virgen Morena (Dark Virgin), statue of La Esclavitud de Nuestra Señora del Sagrario in Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary (Catedral Primada Santa María) (The Enslavement of Our Lady of the Tabernacle)
* Torreciudad (Huesca) : Our Lady of Torreciudad


* Spain
'''Switzerland'''


Andújar (Jaén) : Our Lady of Cabeza
* Einsiedeln (Canton of Schwyz) : Our Lady of the Hermits
Chipiona (Cádiz) : The Virgin of Regla
* Sonogno, Valle Verzasca (Canton of Ticino) : Santa Maria Loretana
Coria (Cáceres) : Our Lady of Argeme
* Uetikon upon Lake (Canton of Zürich) : Catholic Church Saint Francis of Assisi
El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) : The Virgin of the Miracles (Virgen de los milagros)
* Metzerlen-Mariastein (Canton of Solothurn) : Mariastein Abbey
Guadalupe, Cáceres : Our Lady of Guadalupe
* Ascona (Canton of Ticino) : Black Chapel
Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) : Nuestra Señora de la Merced (Our Lady Of Mercy)
* Lugano(Canton of Ticino): Chiesa di Santa Maria di Loreto
Madrid (Madrid) : Our Lady of Atocha
Majorca (Balearic Islands) : Virgen de Lluc, Lluc Monastery
Monistrol de Montserrat (Catalonia) : Virgin of Montserrat in the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat
Ponferrada (León) : Virgin of la Encina
Salamanca (Salamanca) : Virgen de la Peña de Francia (The Virgin of France's Rock)
Santa María de Guadalupe (Cáceres) : Our Lady of Guadalupe
Tenerife (Canary Islands) : Virgin of Candelaria
Toledo (Toledo) : Virgen Morena (Dark Virgin), statue of La Esclavitud de Nuestra Señora del Sagrario in Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary (Catedral Primada Santa María) (The Enslavement of Our Lady of the Tabernacle)
Torreciudad (Huesca) : Our Lady of Torreciudad


* Switzerland
'''Ukraine'''


Einsiedeln (Canton of Schwyz) : Our Lady of the Hermits
* Tsarytsya Karpat (Hoshiv Monastery) : The Queen of the Carpathian Land
Sonogno, Valle Verzasca (Canton of Ticino) : Santa Maria Loretana
Uetikon upon Lake (Canton of Zürich) : Catholic Church Saint Francis of Assisi
Metzerlen-Mariastein (Canton of Solothurn) : Mariastein Abbey
Ascona (Canton of Ticino) : Black Chapel
Lugano(Canton of Ticino): Chiesa di Santa Maria di Loreto


* Ukraine
'''Turkey'''
 
Tsarytsya Karpat (Hoshiv Monastery) : The Queen of the Carpathian Land
 
* Turkey


Three icons portraying the Theotokos with black skin survived in Turkey to the present-day. One of which is housed in the church of Halki theological seminary.
Three icons portraying the Theotokos with black skin survived in Turkey to the present-day. One of which is housed in the church of Halki theological seminary.
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