November 20 - Cardinal Spellman consecrated the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. (USA, 1959) Mary is the mother of the recreated world Blessed Lady! Sky and stars, earth

Regla (Cuba) - Saint Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (d. 1870) Prophetic Marian apparitions for our times Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres [...] Bishop Salvador de Ribera de Quito consecrated the statue of the Madonna in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on February 2, 1611. Devotion to Our Lady of Good Success and the apparitions were also [...] 271 years after her death. Her beatification process was opened in 1986, and the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Quito was turned into a Marian shrine. Pour notre temps

October 17 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe founds the Militia of the Immaculate (Rome, 1917) Like Mary, the Carmelite convent is at the heart of the Church The Magnificat is both Mary’s hymn and a hymn of God's

- Saint Gregory the Great, pope, doctor of the Church (d. 604) - Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) Mary was a mountain which rose above all mountains She was a mountain which

July 7 - Pius XII consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1952) How Jesus and Mary protect us At the outbreak of WWI in 1915, a French priest was on his way to celebrate Holy Mass at a Marian

June 20 - Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Our Lady of Consolation, Patroness of Luxembourg Victory will come through Mary In 1983, Pope Saint John Paul II returned to Poland four years after his

May 4 – Pius XII established the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1944) Something Mary had asked in Fatima in 1917 The feast day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary falls on the day after the feast of [...] midst of WWII, Pope Pius XII dedicated the entire world to the patronage and protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary—the intention expressed in his decree was "peace among nations, freedom for the Church [...] and the practice of virtue.” Though it found prominence in the 20th century, devotion to Mary’s Immaculate Heart is not new. Early Christians revered the movements of Mary’s heart in the Gospels—she pondered

February 23 - Saint Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna and martyr (d. 155) – Apparition of Mary the Immaculate Mother of Victory to Cäcilia Geyer (Wangen/Wigratzbad, Germany, 1938), approved The first miracle

February 7 – Blessed Pius IX, Pope of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (d. 1878) Mary, a most beloved mother The Virgin Mary is "the mother of the members of Christ . . . having cooperated by charity

December 9 – Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – First apparition of Our Lady in Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) – Saint Juan Diego, patron of the Indigenous people (d. 1548) “Full of grace” is the new name [...] name that God gave Mary Today let us contemplate the beauty of Mary Immaculate. The Gospel, which recounts the episode of the Annunciation, helps us to understand what we are celebrating, above all through [...] Mary. She is the one “evergreen oasis” of humanity, the only one that is uncontaminated, created immaculate so as to fully welcome, with her ‘yes,’ God who came into the world and thus to begin a new history