Bourget (France, 1980) The long love story between Mary and France The Virgin Mary has been honored in France since the first centuries. Very often, Mary has also shown her compassion during the turbulent [...] of Mary in France, in his beautiful 1922 apostolic letter Galliam Ecclesiae filiam: "According to an ancient adage, there is no doubt that the kingdom of France has been called the "kingdom of Mary", and [...] archbishop - , Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis de Sales, and many other holy doctors have celebrated Mary and helped to promote and increase throughout France the love of the Virgin Mother of God. In Paris

(Gibraltar, Spain) - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) Saint Joan of Arc: "I have come from God and the Virgin Mary" - "Do you know how to be in the grace of God?" someone asked Joan during her trial. - "It is a great

this to us?’ Blessed be the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph who sanctify our dazedness: ‘They did not understand what he was saying to them…’ (Lk 2:50) But if we side with Mary when she asks questions, let us [...] the Letter (Messina, Italy) - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - St. Charles Lwanga and Companions Mary herself dared to say: "Why have you done this to us?" Father Guillaume de Menthière, a priest of the

Saint Augustine, Bishop of Canterbury (d. 604 or 605) When the Holy Spirit finds Mary in a soul, he hastens there! When Mary has taken root in a soul she produces in it wonders of grace which only she can [...] never had and never will have her equal in purity and fruitfulness. Together with the Holy Spirit Mary produced the greatest thing that ever was or ever will be: a God-man. She will consequently produce [...] in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things. When the Holy Spirit, her spouse, finds Mary in a soul, he hastens there and enters fully into it. He gives himself generously to that soul according

28 May - Pentecost- Our Lady of Carmine (Italy, 1663) Mary brings us into the mystery of Pentecost Mary brings us to Jesus. Mary also brings us back to him. She is the one we need to live and put into [...] strength of the Spirit will never fail those who, with Mary, will work in the Church and for the Church in the future. Marie-Benoîte Angot In Adorer avec Marie, Ed. Sarment-Jubilé, p. 80 Marian Encyclopedia [...] the living presence of Jesus. It is Mary, our Mother, who will bring us to glory. It is she who leads us to enter into the mystery of Pentecost. On Pentecost, Mary is waiting: as on the Annunciation, and

explained the importance of Mary and the need for an "incarnate" faith, which reconciles "reason with the reasons of the heart". Here are some excerpts: “If the place occupied by Mary has been essential to the [...] May 15 - Our Lady of the Light (Mexico) "Mary has always been essential to the equilibrium of the Faith" Benedict XVI has testified publicly to his Marian devotion on many occasions. In an interview with [...] dimensions. The head must reflect with lucidity, but the heart must be able to feel warmth: devotion to Mary (which ‘avoids every false exaggeration on the one hand, and excessive narrow-mindedness in the c

May 10 - Our Lady of the Holy House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) The House of Mary, transported from Nazareth to Loreto In 1291, when the crusaders left the Holy Land for good and the Muslim armies, as [...] of Recanati (near Ancona, Italy), first close to the harbor and then to the hill where the house of Mary still stands today (Loreto). According to a popular tradition never challenged by the long series [...] Nazareth and the Basilica of Loreto are like Siamese twins, for each contains a part of the House of Mary, two parts which, according to tradition, were separated from each other. This is confirmed by the

May 8 - Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 1875) The wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (II) Mary sustains us when we are ready to fall; lifts us up when we have fallen; takes us back, as a charitable [...] following her we do not go astray. A true child of Mary will not be deceived by the evil one, nor will he fall into any formal heresy. For where Mary's guidance is, neither the evil spirit with its illusions [...] and accompanies us like an army arrayed in battle. Never has a servant who has entrusted himself to Mary succumbed to the malice, the number, and the strength of his enemies. She intercedes for us with her

The Milk Grotto in Bethlehem, Palestine, is dedicated to the divine maternity of the Virgin Mary The Virgin Mary’s breast milk has been the subject of veneration for centuries and even today couples battling [...] divine maternity of the Virgin Mary. Both Christian and Muslim believers claim that when the Holy Family found refuge during King Herod ’s Massacre of the Innocents , Mary spilled some drops of her breast [...] chalky white. People still drink the powder of the limestone rock of the cave walls, known as Virgin Mary milk powder, to cure their infertility. The faithful often share stories of miraculous births after

the Ave Maris Stella ("Hail, thou star of ocean"), and the "Come, Holy Spirit", to ask God to help you understand and appreciate this secret given by him Saint Louis de Montfort, The Secret of Mary §1-2 www [...] April 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort The secret of Mary and its conditions 1. Here is a secret, chosen soul, which the most High God taught me and which I have not found in any book, ancient or modern. Inspired