The practice was later adopted by new converts to the Roman Catholic faith who associated the event of the Twelve Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Upper Room as they prayed for nine days until the Holy Spirit descended on the Feast of the Pentecost.
The Saint himself kept his words and very many experienced his protection after making this "Novena of Grace".
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Agnelo's Novena Masses were held from the 11th to the 19th November, at the adr besides the Pilar Saibinnichi Igorz (Our Lady of Pilar), at Pilar, Goa.
Balestier Road is located in the urban planning areas of Novena and Kallang in the central part of Singapore.
According to Faustina's words, Jesus himself in a vision asked to pray the Divine Mercy Novena as a preparation for the Feast of the Divine Mercy, celebrated each year on 1st Sunday after Easter.
Faustina wrote that in her visions Jesus instructed her that the Feast of the Divine Mercy (the Sunday after Easter) be preceded by a Divine Mercy Novena which would begin on Good Friday and conclude on Divine Mercy Sunday.
Antonio Cortéz de la Cruz, one of his disciples, collected Espinosa Medrano's sermons and published them posthumously in Valladolid, in a book entitled La novena maravilla (The Ninth Wonder) (1695).
On the feast of the Sacred Heart, 1 June 1804, Mother Julie, after a novena made in obedience to her confessor, was cured of paralysis.
The Baclaran Church in Parañaque, Philippines, uses a verse rendering of the song for the Wednesday Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
According to an interview with the Prioress of the Carmelite Monastery, Mother Mary of the Sacred Heart and Sister Mary Balthazar were ordered to burn several boxes containing leaflefts, novena booklets, rose petals, and any religious paraphernalia pertaining to the apparition.
Seasonal services in the Chapel include evening Mass on all Fridays of Lent and the traditional Christmastide novena of Masses called Simbang Gabi.
The hymn is sung during the Wednesday Novena service to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and sometimes during Benediction at the devotion's principal shrine, the Baclaran Church.
Falling tiles were a problem in Toa Payoh and Novena stations, and the trademark bright yellow tiles of the station's walls were replaced with a layer of plastic and paint of the same colour.