century, the church received the miraculous image of the Maria Consolatrix Afflictorum, the patron saint of both the city and the nation.
The charming annual Octave of Our Lady of Luxembourg takes place here every year on the fifth Sunday after Easter. Thousands of pilgrims gather to pray to the miraculous statue of the Holy Virgin for protection. They then form a procession to carry the statue from the cathedral through the streets to an altar covered in flowers in the Avenue de la Porte Neuve. The cathedral was expanded and enlarged from 1935 to 1938.