O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity. --Saint Basil the Great.  We have another great image of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Ann Ball’s book: The Other Faces Of Mary: Stories, Devotions and Pictures of the Holy Virgin around the World.  This next image of the Blessed Virgin Mary comes from India and is called Our Lady of Velankanni (Our Lady of Good health).

T his image of the Blessed Virgin Mary is unique for it one of two images of the Blessed Virgin Mary is wearing an Indian Sari.  According to oral history, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a young boy delivering milk to his neighbor.  According to the legend Mary was holding the Christ child in her arms.  Another miracle account says that the image of Blessed Virgin Mary saved two Portuguese shipwrecked sailors.
While the Vatican has not approved this apparition, because of a lack of evidence, the Church has referred to Mary as “Our Lady of Good Health” for a long time.  The reason why this title was given to the Blessed Virgin Mary was because she followed God’s will completely and therefore did not run into the same problems that we do when reject God and try to do things our way.  God does not punish us for rejecting Him but every time we turn away from God we will be hurt because we are turning away from love itself.  God’s punishment is like that of a man dying of dehydration in the desert despite having a canteen full of water.  If he does not drink the water, it will do him no good.  It is also similar to how a fire can burn someone not because the fire is mean but rather the person was not safe around it.  Mary shows us how to live as healthy life as possible because she always did things God’s way. 
When thinking of Mary under the title of Our Lady of Good Health, it reminds me that doing things God’s way may not prevent me from suffering from earthly sicknesses but ultimately I will receive eternal life and health in heaven. 
Reflecting on the image again, I cannot help but appreciate the bright colors and the beautiful outfit that Mary and Jesus are wearing.  These garments are meant to remind us of our royal dignity also as sons and daughters of God. 
Prayer To Our Lady of Velankanni
Oh Most Holy Virgin! You were chosen by the Most Adorable Trinity from all eternity to be the most pure Mother of Jesus. Permit me, your humble and devoted servant, to remind you of the joy received in the instant of the Most Sacred Incarnation of our Divine Lord and during the nine months you carried Him in your chaste womb. I wish most sincerely that I could renew, or even increase that joy, by the fervor of my Prayers.
Oh! Tender Mother of the afflicted! Grant me under my present necessities that special protection You have promised to those who devoutly commemorate this ineffable joy. Relying on the infinite mercies of your Divine Son, trusting in the promise which He has made that those who ask should receive, and penetrated with confidence in your powerful prayers, I most humbly entreat you intercede for me. I beg you to obtain for me the favors which I petition for in this novena, if it be the Holy Will of God to grant them; to ask for me whatever graces I most stand in need of.
(Here specify your requests)
I desire by this prayer, which I now offer in your honor, to prove the lively confidence I have in your intercession. Accept it, I beseech you, in honor of that supernatural love and joy, with which your Immaculate Heart was replenished during the abode of your divine Son in your womb; in veneration of which, I offer you the sentiments of my heart.
Oh! Mother of God! accept these salutations in union with the respect and veneration with which the Angel Gabriel first hailed you, "Full of Grace" I wish most sincerely that they may become so many gems in the crown of your incidental glory, which will increase in brightness to the end of the world.
I beseech you, Oh! comfortress of the afflicted, by the joy you received, when the word was made flesh, to obtain for me the favors and graces, which I have now implored through your powerful intercession. For this end I offer you all the good works which have even been performed in your honor. I most humbly entreat you for the love of the amiable Heart of Jesus, with which yours was ever so inflamed, to hear my humble prayers and to obtain my requests. - Amen.