novelist. Born of Jewish parents who were tailors and antique dealers, he became a renowned poet and painter, until he had a vision of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in 1909. After a series of visions, Max Jacob [...] March 5 – Our Lady of the Miracle (Italy, 1440) - Max Jacob (French poet, painter, writer, and critic; Catholic convert. d. 1944) – Public apparition of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun (Egypt, 1970) Virgin [...] 5th, 1944. Among the poems he wrote is this beautiful prayer to Mary: "Praise be to this little country girl, who merited to be the mother of God! It seems to me that she was born in Brittany and that she
God considers only humility. In a sermon on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Augustine writes of her humility: "O true humility of Mary, who begot God for mankind, made life known to mortals, opened [...] September 17 - Our Lady of the Virtues and Greatnesses of Mary (La Flèche, France) Saint Thomas Aquinas: God saved the world through Mary's humility The Blessed Virgin possessed many qualities for which [...] which she is to be praised. She was full of grace, as testified by the angel. She was chosen as the mother of God, and although she became the mother of God, she gloried in her humility alone, saying : "Because
July 15 - Saint Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church (d. 1274) - Feast of Mary Mediatrix (Maronite and Syriac liturgical calendar) After the Trinity, Mary is the one whom we should most revere There can be [...] no doubt that the Blessed Mother and Virgin Mary, with a virile heart and the most constant determination, willed to deliver up her Son for the salvation of the human race, so that the Mother would be [...] be praised and cherished is that she agreed that her only Son should be sacrificed for the salvation of mankind. And yet, she was so compassionate that, if it had been possible, she would have gladly taken
June 21 - Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Jesuit novice (d. 1591) Former atheist and occultist converted by Mary (II) Former atheist and occultist William Toro [...] would happen. “That’s where it all started. I saw her there [shows the image of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal]. In front of me came a fog from the ground that covered everything…I got scared, I started [...] Padre Pio of Pietrelcina were present…I had to choose a side.” And so, after these supernatural experiences, Toro converted to Catholicism and his life completely changed. “God allows all of this so that
May 31 - Feast of the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth The Virgin Mary presses her cousin Elizabeth to her Heart In the visions of Maria Valtorta: “A fairly old woman appears at the top of the staircase [...] hand. As soon as she recognizes Mary she raises her arms to the sky and utters an « Oh! » of joy and surprise. She then rushes, as fast as she can, towards Mary. Also Mary, who always moves very quietly [...] Blessed is the Fruit of Your womb! (She says exactly that: two clearly separate sentences). How did I deserve that the Mother of my Lord should come to me, Your servant? There, at the sound of Your voice, the
roof of the parish’s clubhouse lifted off the building and blew across the parking lot towards the statue of Mary and the church. Fr. O’Hara and another parishioner had time for a quick Hail Mary, and [...] May 29 - Mary appears to Sister Lucia of Fatima in the Convent of Tuy (Spain, 1930) Marian statue stops flyaway roof at St. Stephen Parish in Weatherford The 70 mph winds that blew through St. Stephen [...] Stephen Parish in Weatherford the evening of March 2 were no match for Mary. After all, in the Litany of Loreto, she’s called “Virgin most powerful.” And her Son could calm a storm. Around 5:30 p.m., Father Emmet
April 25 - St. Mark the Evangelist - Marienfried apparitions of Mary the Great Mediatrix of Graces to Bärbel Ruess (Germany, 1946) "In Lourdes, Mary healed my daughter's heart" Veronika, a Polish woman, became [...] operation at the age of 45. Her friend Nathalie testified about their visit to Lourdes together: "Veronika is a friend of mine. She is full of life, intrepid, joyful, and full of projects. She has suffered [...] At the end of this experience of faith and abandonment, we all felt a strong emotion. The four of us cried, because something had happened in Veronika's heart. Carried like the cripple of Capernaum by
Resurrection of the Lord - Byzantine Church: Saint Mary of the Source - Holy Virgin Empress (Russia) Mary, "the first person to whom the risen Jesus appeared" The Easter season gives us many accounts of the a [...] will be part of the first group of people gathered in the Cenacle. But where is she at Easter? In his Spiritual Exercises, when he comes to the mystery of the Resurrection, St. Ignatius of Loyola recommends [...] apparitions of the risen Jesus to the first Christians, but one person seems to be forgotten, overlooked, or rather discreet in her silence: the Virgin Mary. She is mentioned as being at the foot of the Cross;
March 20 - Saint Joseph, Spouse of Mary - Our Lady of Abundance (Italy, 1603) Joseph understood Mary's silence A shadow has crept into Joseph's happiness. Mary is now lost to him: he will be alone, and [...] solution that is the most respectful of Mary. This is the reaction of a good man with a generous heart. He respects Mary too much to condemn her to the reprobation of the whole village, and he respects God's [...] understands Mary's silence, he grasps with a single intuition of faith what God expects of her and what God expects of him. Once again, God brings them together to place them both at the heart of salvation
San Nicolás,” two of the most important shrines in Argentina, if the team won the World Cup. Lujan, Argentina, is the site of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lujan, the patroness of the country, which [...] every year attracts millions of pilgrims. In San Nicolás — a city near Rosario, Messi’s birthplace — is the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás, which has a history of Marian apparitions that began [...] 1933) - 13th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) - Letter of Pius XI on France,"Kingdom of Mary" (1922) Messi’s promise to the Virgin Mary After Argentina’s victory at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a
