population transferred the icon to the village parish Church of Saint Michael, now the most important Marian pilgrimage church in the Tyrol. Pope Saint John Paul II raised the church to a basilica in 2000. The
Laval (France) Mary was the "only woman" in Carlo's life Carlo Acutis (1991-2006) is a young Italian saint who died at the age of 15. He is a model of holiness for our time and especially for millennials. [...] Francis, Carlo is a modern tessera (1) of the Christian mosaic, who can be described as the first saint of cyberspace. He actually had outstanding computer and Internet skills, that he chose to use to spread
favoring historical rigor that followed Vatican II. But since it marked an important historical event, Saint John Paul II reestablished it after the attacks of September 11, 2001, following the inter-religious [...] s peace meeting in Assisi on January 2002. The day after the attacks on September 12, 2001, Pope Saint John Paul II delivered a prayer for peace at the General Audience, entrusting the world to the Virgin
mind, a creature in whom he is so honored as in the most Blessed Virgin Mary, not excepting even the saints, the cherubim or the highest seraphim in heaven. Mary is God's garden of Paradise, his own unspeakable [...] a second world - Paradise - for the Blessed. He created a third for himself, which he named Mary. Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) In The Secret of Mary, part 1: Necessity of having a true devotion to
Mary every day. I entrusted to her the diocese of Saint Louis de Caceres in Mato Grosso (Brazil) and I also offered the Virgin Mary the diocese of Saint John of Boa Vista in Sao Paulo (Brazil) where I became
By her fortitude, she is the Queen of martyrs. By her justice and love, she is the Queen of all saints and predestined ones. Filled from the very first instant with the radiant, life-giving light of the [...] and therefore the one most magnificently showered with divine favors. With her, all the angels and saints together are as if they were not, for her sovereign presence fills heaven and earth." Marthe Robin
of Tears (Syracuse, Italy, 1953) When a soul is baptized in Christ, its new name should be “Mary” Saint Augustine (354-430) teaches that Mary first conceived the Verb in her heart through faith, before [...] birth of Jesus in the souls of those who believe in him as the One sent by the Father. This is why Saint Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) gave the newly baptized the name of “Mary”. The soul of every Christian
Rencurel received apparitions of the Virgin Mary, Christ, angels and various saints at different places in the region: Saint-Étienne d'Avançon, the Fours Valley, Pindreau, Le Laus, Embrun, Gap, La Saulce
grace wins out and raises her without comparison over the consummate grace of all the saints of Heaven and the saints to come. Marthe Robin (a French mystic and stigmatist) Taken from Prends ma vie Seigneur
navigators, and the greatest patron saint of the island. The Mercedarian brothers settled on the hill in 1335, and have now been there for seven centuries. Their founder was Saint Peter Nolasco, who started the