Castle (Dalmatia) Mary visits all those who suffer The Virgin Mary stands at the side of all those who share in the cross of her Son, as a bearer of hope. Raphael, age 6, was suffering from a congenital disease [...] leave him alone: "Every night the Virgin Mary comes to sit beside me on my bed. We talk together. I am very comfortable with her!” “And tonight, is she here with you?” “No, not yet! Right now she is visiting [...] visiting all the other people who are suffering. She goes on a big tour. When she is done then she comes to my bed!” Father Nicolas Buttet In Famille Chrétienne magazine (Christian Family Magazine), May
messenger while meditating on the sacred Scriptures, represented generally with a book that she holds in her hands, or on her lap, or on a lectern. This is also the image of the Church offered by the Council [...] constitution "Dei Verbum" (No. 1). Let us pray that, like Mary, the Church may be a docile handmaid of the Divine Word and proclaim it always with firm confidence so that "the whole world, hearing, will [...] Lady of the Grotto (Lamego, Portugal) Like Mary, the Docile Handmaid of the Divine Word This attitude of religious listening is the typical attitude of Mary Most Holy exactly as shown in the emblematic
placed herself, with an unutterable gentleness, lower than widows, penitent sinners, and her from whom seven demons had been cast out. I plead with you, my beloved children, if you love Mary, seek to acquire [...] (because Jesus had yet been glorified after His Ascension), they had a discussion about who was the greatest among them. Mary, in contrast, humbled herself not only in all things, but also more than all [...] for she was greater. So too, it is with reason that she who placed herself last of all when she was the first, should be raised from the last to the first rank. It is with reason that she who had made herself
"shaken and decimated" by a terrible plague between 1426 and 1430. On March 7, 1426, Vincenza Parisi, 70 years of age, saw a "lady" on the hill of Monte Berico, who had the appearance of a beautiful queen, wearing [...] sun and surrounded by a thousand perfumes. Faced with so much beauty, she felt weak and fell to the ground. Then, the beautiful lady lifted her up and said, "I am the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ [...] March 07 - Apparition of the Madonna Del Monte Berico (Italy, 1426) Mary Stopped the Plague in Monte Berico (I) A precious manuscript, kept in the Bertoliana Vicenza Library of Veneto (#1430), tells in
So that day young Bernadette went out with a few friends, to gather dead wood at the grotto of Massabielle near the Gave River. Suddenly, she heard a sound like a gust of wind, and she raised her head [...] could melt anyone's heart. Her mouth breathed God's goodness and kindness. Entering a supernatural stupor but filled with joy, Bernadette dared to approach the Lady, reciting her rosary. The apparition ended [...] February 11 - Our Lady of Lourdes (France, 1858) The Apparitions of Mary in Lourdes The mountain air was cold on February 11, 1858, in Lourdes. Food was scarce and the firewood was all gone in the "cachot"
their Child -- in her, with her, for her -- in a singular fusion of love. The Passion of the Father and the Passion of Mary became a one and only human Passion, experienced by Mary with infinite love and intensity [...] Experienced by Mary (I) The Virgin Mary helped me understand something that, as of yet, I had not understood in depth. Apparently, during the Passion, the Holy Spirit was incarnated in Mary. Through Him [...] Passion of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was the intermediary between Mary and Jesus and the Father in her. The Trinity was in the Passion with Mary. Everything that Jesus suffered, what He felt in his body, in
reached a historical goal. But today, in Mary’s Assumption into Heaven, we celebrate an infinitely greater conquest. The Madonna has set foot in paradise: she went there not only in spirit, but with her body [...] November 2 – The Commemoration of All Souls’ Day Mary in Heaven: One giant leap for mankind When man set foot on the moon, he said a phrase that became famous: “That’s one small step for man, one giant [...] precious, destined to rise again. God does not allow our bodies to vanish into nothing. With God, nothing is lost! In Mary, the goal has been reached and we have before our eyes the reasons why we journey:
appearing in a dream to both the patrician John and Pope Liberius in August 356. She asked them to build her a church, at a location they would recognize because it would be covered with snow in the middle [...] is the highest in Rome. May Mary, the all-humble and all-faithful Mother of the Church, guard the eternal city and watch over it with her absolute and tender purity. The Marie de Nazareth Team Source: Vatican [...] November 24 – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Bologna, Italy) Mary, Mother of the Church, dominates the eternal city The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, located on the top of the Esquiline Hill
of Mary "Liberatrix of Russia" The miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kazan has the sad look of the Russian Virgins, who tenderly press the Child Jesus to their heart. Previously covered with an oklad [...] destroyed part of the city of Kazan in 1579. The icon was discovered that year under the rubble of a burned house by a 10-year-old girl, to whom the Virgin appeared several times, giving her the order to search [...] II, in 1918, was to consecrate his Empire to her. He was arrested a few days later and, on the orders of Trotsky, executed along with his entire family. The Kazan icon disappeared in the horrors of the
Virgin Mary During a trip to Lourdes (France) in 1930, a modest railway worker from Lorraine, Georges Simonin, got the idea of building a replica of the Lourdes basilicas on a scale of 1/20. It was a colossal [...] he was cured! Overwhelmed with emotion, he kept it a secret and went to Lourdes to thank Our Lady. There, he woke up one night with a start. He had dreamed that he was building a model of the town in Be [...] started an easier project, sculpting a statue of Our Lady of Boulogne for his parish of Villiers-sur-Marne. During the installation of the statue in the church, he felt a great heat run through his body—his
