July 22 – Our Lady of Kaloja (Russia) – Birth of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque Without a doctor or medicine, death seemed inevitable In 1944, Solzhenitsyn's fellow prisoner in an archipelago camp, called [...] to malnourishment. Without a doctor or any medicine, death seemed inevitable. He said, "My comrades and I didn’t know of anyone who had recovered from it. I was moved into the room for the dying. I had [...] performed a miracle on behalf of the sinner that I am. He had touched me—now I am a soldier of the Church and have become a son of his Mother." Recueil Marial (Collection of Marian Stories) 1977

of a Catholic student who managed to pick it up discretely. He broke its string and gave a bead to each Legionary of Mary in his group, saying: "Keep these grains very carefully, for if we pray faithfully [...] members of the Legion of Mary, asking for their forgiveness. Then everyone brought back the beads that they had kept ... The profaned Rosary was reassembled with a new string and returned to the repentant [...] July 5 – Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation / Visitation / Christmas / Adoration of the Magi / Finding of Jesus in the Temple / Resurrection / Ascension) "Keep these beads carefully" At the

November 8 – Mary of Victory – Blessed John Duns Scotus How Duns Scotus won the debate on the idea of the Immaculate Conception Not only Christ's role in the history of salvation but also that of Mary is the [...] be used by Bl. Pope Pius IX when he solemnly defined the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. And this argument is that of "preventive Redemption," according to which the Immaculate Conception is [...] brought about by Christ because the very power of his love and his mediation obtained that the Mother be preserved from original sin. Therefore Mary is totally redeemed by Christ, but already before her conception

Aachen: Mary’s robe on display every seven years (Germany) The Portuguese prime minister offers to babysit On May 12 and 13, 2017, Portugal celebrated the 100 th anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s apparitions [...] apparitions in Fatima, and the canonization of two of the three small shepherds who saw her. Prime Minister Antonio Costa, in anticipation of the importance of the visit, granted an exceptional holiday on Friday

October 26 - Beatification of Bartolo Longo, servant of the Virgin Mary after being the slave of Satan Mass said in Lourdes for Middle Eastern Christian refugees Many immigrant refugees in Europe make [...] Middle East refugees. “When they left their country, they lost everything: belongings, job, land, and a future,” said Bishop Pascal Gollnisch, director of the Catholic organization “Oeuvre d'Orient” (France) [...] country now. We want to stay here for the rest of our lives. I don’t want my children to experience war, and all the other things we saw over there.” Adapted from Valeurs Actuelles magazine

Lourdes the following year, and there the Blessed Virgin rocked me in her arms! As a matter of fact, I have been rocked by "metal" music since the age of 8. At 21, I'm still a fan and I play in a Christian rock [...] October 31 – Pius XII consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1942) In Lourdes, I was smacked by grace! I went on a day-pilgrimage to Lourdes for young people from the Jura (eastern France)

scene: they found Mary sitting on the top of the rampart, busy fishing! Attached to the line of her fishing rod was a rosary. Word of a fisherman! St Peter had never seen this kind of bait! Mary was leisurely [...] leisurely pulling up the souls that clung to it and passed them to her Son, who sat next to her and sneaked them into Paradise one by one ... The scene was a perfect reenactment of the miraculous catch of fish [...] August 11 – Mary Refuge of Sinners - Blessed John Henry Newman (d. 1890) The hook of her fishing rod is a rosary In a recent issue of Famille Chrétienne (a French Catholic magazine), Juliette Duvivier

world and dedicated to the Virgin Mary took part in reciting the rosary in unison, each one in turn leading the prayer. These shrines were: Our Lady of Walsingham in England; Jesus the Savior and Mother [...] Mother Mary in Nigeria; Our Lady of Częstochowa in Poland; Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth; Our Lady of the Rosary in South Korea; Our Lady Aparecida in Brazil; Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage in [...] July 5 - Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation, Visitation, Christmas, Adoration of the Magi, Finding of Jesus in the Temple, Resurrection, Ascension) Rosary marathon in May 2021 for the end of

attributed to the Virgin Mary have been reported. Felix F. Schwarz, Symbolique des cathédrales, visages de la Vierge (Symbolism in Cathedrals, Faces of the Virgin Mary) Marie de Nazareth [...] October 17 – Dedication of Saint Mary Basilica (Chartres, France) The Virgin’s tunic is in the Cathedral of Chartres For several centuries, the Marian shrine of Chartres was one of the most visited in [...] in the West because it preserved a precious relic: the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore at the birth of Christ. It was also believed that Divine Providence had chosen Chartres as the first church in Gaul

January 27 – Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) A worldwide prayer chain in tribute to Mary On December 8, 2018, the feast day of the Immaculate Conception, the Lourdes Shrine hosted the [...] on the same day, with thousands of people offering prayers to Mary on all continents—individuals, families, parishes, cathedrals, shrines and basilicas. In 1965, three years before his death, Saint Padre [...] Virgin Mary in the grotto of Lourdes, each year on December 8th, at the same place where Our Lady had said to Bernadette, on March 25, 1858: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” Notre Histoire avec Marie