In this month of Mary, in the context of anti-Christian legislations promulgated by several Christian countries including France, we should remember that in recent times, starting in 1830, the Virgin Mary has multiplied her visits and calls for conversion, especially on the soil of the "eldest Daughter of the Church" (i.e. France)!
In that year, Mary appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré in her convent of the rue du Bac, to ask her to spread the Miraculous Medal. Just sixteen years later, in 1846, she again appeared in La Salette to two children, her face in tears; twelve years later she came to Lourdes, in 1858, to speak to Saint Bernadette Soubirous and to confirm the dogma of the Immaculate Conception; in 1871, she was in Pontmain visiting some children again; then in 1876, she appeared as the “Mother of Mercy” in Pellevoisin to the young Estelle Faguette, whom she charged to spread the scapular. In 1947, at Ile-Bouchard, Mary appeared to four young children and asked them to pray for their country on the brink of a coup d’état. Through her intercession France was spared from an imminent insurrection.
Pope Saint John Paul II said, "If Victory comes, it will come through Mary." Today, more than ever, the Virgin Mary calls her eldest daughter, but also all her daughters, the nations, to wake up and convert, to bring about her victory.
The Marie de Nazareth Team