Catholic theology of holiness. Prayers and devotions asking for her intercession, such as the rosary, the Hail Mary, and the Memorare are common Catholic practice. The Church devotes several liturgical feasts to Mary, mainly the Immaculate Conception, Mary, Mother of God, the Visitation, the Assumption, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and in the Americas the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pilgrimages to Marian shrines like Lourdes, France, and Fátima, Portugal, are also a common form of devotion and prayer. Men become bishops, priests or deacons through the sacrament of Holy Orders. Candidates to the priesthood must have a college
Mary Star of the Sea Church, Grand Case Latin rite and depends on the Diocese of Basse-Terre ("Dioecesis Imae Telluris et Petrirostrensis" or "Diocèse de Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre") which was created in 1850 by Pope Pius IX and has its Seat in the Island of Guadalupe of which until 2007 also depended all the French territory of the Island of San Martin. Its construction began in parallel to the Catholic Church of Marigot (dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours) in the 1940s. As its name suggests it is dedicated to Saint Mary the mother of God in her invocation of Mary Star of the Sea (called in Latin: