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MARIAZELL

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIAZELL , a See also:

village of See also:Austria, in See also:Styria, 89 m. N. of See also:Graz. Pop. (1900), 1499. It is picturesquely situated in the valley of the See also:Salza, amid the See also:north Styrian See also:Alps. Its entire claim to See also:notice lies in the fact that it is the most frequented See also:sanctuary in Austria, being visited annually by about 200,000 pilgrims. The See also:object of veneration is a See also:miracle-working See also:image of the Virgin, carved in See also:lime-See also:tree See also:wood, and about 18 in. high. This was presented to the See also:place in 1157, and is now enshrined in a See also:chapel lavishly adorned with See also:objects of See also:silver and other costly materials. The large See also:church of which the chapel forms See also:part was erected in 1644 as an expansion of a smaller church built by See also:Louis I., See also:king of See also:Hungary, after a victory over the See also:Turks in 1363. In the vicinity of Mariazell is the See also:pretty Alpine See also:lake of Erlafsee. See M. M.

Rabenlehrer, Mariazell, Osterreichs See also:

Loreto (See also:Vienna, 1891) ; and O. Eigner, Geschichte See also:des aufgeshpbenen Benedictinerstiftes Mariazell (Vienna, 1900).

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