the immensity of the firmament, we saw, next to the sun, Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady, dressed in white with a blue mantle. Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus seemed to bless the world, with [...] me the idea that it was Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord seemed to bless the world in the same way as Saint Joseph. This apparition disappeared and it seemed to me that I still saw Our Lady under the aspect

Heart of Mary", Queen of Heaven and Earth, and that Saint Joseph is the patron saint of the Holy Family, of good death, of workers, and also the patron saint of the universal Church. Jacques de la Bastide.

Lebanon, a biblical and Marian land The Vatican has decided that Lebanon, which has given three major saints and a blessed to the Church, will return to the list of official Catholic pilgrimage sites in 2019 [...] soil was trodden by Jesus, has many Christian monasteries (including the Qadisha, in the “Valley of Saints”) and shrines dedicated to the Virgin Mary, including Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, above Jounieh [...] The first was Blessed Paul VI, who made a stop in Beirut on December 2, 1964, on his way to Bombay. Saint John Paul II came twice, in 1979 and 1997; and Benedict XVI visited Lebanon in September 2012 to deliver

the Church, as a wise teacher of morality, has always invited believers to seek and to find in the Saints, and above all in the Virgin Mother of God "full of grace" and "all-holy," the model, the strength [...] joy needed to live a life in accordance with God's commandments and the Beatitudes of the Gospel. Saint John Paul II – Encyclical Veritatis Splendor §107

with—with Mary to carry our prayers to her Son, with saints whose charism coincides with our intentions. We pray in community—and it is a massive community of saints—while experiencing an interior solitude. Margaret

and women, and lay people also perished there. Saint John Paul II considered this vision to be a prophecy of the attack on his life on May 13, 1981, in Saint Peter's Square. In 2000, he sent Cardinal Bertone

Indeed, she was a mountain, set over all mountains, for Mary's greatness shines above all the saints. Pope Saint Gregory the Great

helpful to recall that as early as the seventh century our predecessor Saint Martin I, called Mary "our glorious Lady, ever Virgin." Saint Agatho, in the synodal letter sent to the fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical

June 2 - Our Lady of the Dimple (Italy) All Holy Vessel of Honor (I) Saints are not divine, except in the sense that all Christians are divinized (cf. Pet 1:4). They deserve reverence insofar as they are [...] are vessels of God's holiness. (...) Mary holds a unique place in the Communion of Saints. God gave her a pivotal role in history, as He became incarnate in her womb. He allowed the course of redemption

Christian life is illuminated by Mary’s maternal smile. It was this smile that Saint Bernadette Soubirous saw in 1858 in Lourdes, and Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus in 1883 in Lisieux. And yet, neither of them [...] died of happiness. Only in Heaven will we be able to measure how much God, the Virgin Mary, and the saints love us. Nevertheless, these two girls from France saw something of Mary's smile and their lives