It was this wedding date of October 21st, and not, as tradition dictates, the date of his death, that Saint John Paul II chose for the liturgical memorial of Blessed Charles of Austria in 2004. The day [...] was then promoted General of the Austrian Army. On November 21, 1916, Emperor Franz Joseph died at the age of 86. Charles and Zita were crowned in Budapest on December 30th of the same year. Aleteia [...] October 26 – Our Lady of Health (Venice, Italy, 1630) Charles and Zita of Habsburg entrusted their marriage to Mary "Now we have to help each other get to Heaven." These are the words pronounced by Archduke

Louis XIII consecrated France to Mary (1638) Feast of the Assumption of Mary: A major national holiday in France In 1636, the Blessed Virgin asked Mother Anne Marie of Jesus Crucified, a stigmatized French [...] France to the Virgin Mary. He also instituted an annual public procession to take place every August 15th, the feast of the Assumption of Mary, in all the churches of all the dioceses of the Kingdom. To this [...] to her. The following year, the King of France, Louis XIII, "in the secret of his heart," consecrated his person and his Kingdom to Mary, and he and the Queen, Anne of Austria, multiplied prayers and pilgrimages

by Don John of Austria, half-brother of King Philip II of Spain, during the Battle of Lepanto, was discovered in 2012. The Venetians gave the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary to Don John of Austria. Back [...] this feat of arms witnessed by the statue of the Mother of God, Don John of Austria donated it upon his death in 1578 to the Brotherhood of the Galleys in the Church of St John Lateran Port of Santa María [...] December 15 - Our Lady of Lepanto (Rome, Italy) - Mary Mediatrix of All Graces The statue of the Madonna and Child of Lepanto was discovered The statue of the Madonna and Child that was on board the royal

October 8 - Mary, Mother of Hungary The Messenger of the Mother of God (I) In the suburbs of Paris, there lived a well known doctor named Louis Granpas. He was known for his great medical skills and his [...] that point, he found his rosary, which he always had on him and entrusted the outcome of this adventure to the Mother of God. [...] his benevolence towards the poor. Louis came from a rich family and he had married the heiress of a great fortune. He was a fervent Christian and he took it as a duty to treat all his poor patients for

the initiative of priests and the faithful carrying other images of the Mother of God of Jasna Gora. These Visitations are linked to renewal of an authentic spiritual life, after hours of interior preparation [...] May 4 - Pius XII established the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1944) The Millennium Anniversary of the Baptism of Poland (II) In 1976, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was invited by Pope Paul VI to preach [...] Visitation in a rather particular way because the Mother of God is “going from house to house” in the replica of the Madonna statue of Czestochowa. Mary is traveling around the country, going from diocese to

January 27 - Saint Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Saint Angela Merici Litany of Saint Angela of the Ursulines Holy Mary, Mother of God, and faithful Guardian of our Mother Saint Angela [...] Angela, who led an angelic life in the house of thy parents, Pray for us. (…) O God, Who by means of our blessed Mother Saint Angela didst cause a new Order of holy virgins to flourish in Thy Church,: grant [...] Pray for us. St Angela, favored with the choicest gifts of God from thy infancy, Pray for us. St Angela, who didst give thyself to the practice of all the virtues from thy tenderest years, Pray for us.

November 5 – Mary, Seat of Wisdom, "Sedes Sapientiae" (Cologne, Germany, 1280) In the midst of the Belarusian crisis, Archbishop of Minsk exhorts the faithful to imitate Mary "The country will not change [...] Archbishop Kondrusiewicz of Minsk, the capital of Belarus, called the people to prayer. In the face of the social and political crisis that shook Belarus after the disputed re-election of outgoing President [...] Archbishop Kondrusiewicz, Catholic Archbishop of Minsk and Mogilev, called for prayer and the "transformation of hearts" following the example of the Virgin Mary, during the Mass at the Marian shrine in Braslaw

Nativity of the Virgin Mary - Our Lady of the Kneeling (France, 1550) The Magnificat is the song of the most holy Heart of Mary I call the Magnificat the true Canticle of the most holy Heart of the Blessed [...] the Heart of Jesus who pronounces through her, its prophetic utterance of praise. Thirdly, the Magnificat is the canticle of the Heart of the Mother of uncreated love, that is, the canticle of the Holy [...] in her Heart, the soul of her soul, the spirit of her spirit and the Heart of her Heart, is the primary author of this canticle. It is this divine Heart which inspired the mind of the holy Mother with the

Saint John Mary Vianney, Holy Curé of Ars (France, d. 1859) - Apparition of Our Lady to Natalino Scarpa (14 years old) in 1716 (Pellestrina, Italy) Saint Joan of Arc’s mission was a true kind of motherhood [...] kind of motherhood, of a spiritual and virginal nature. Joan, who already carried in her heart the desire to free of the people of France, had to "give birth" to them by her actions and the pains of her [...] comparison between Eve and Mary. Saint Joan of Arc had a great love for the Blessed Virgin. Father François-Marie Léthel, ocd, Adapted from Zenit Secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Theology and Professor

July 15 - Saint Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church (d. 1274) - Feast of Mary Mediatrix (Maronite and Syriac calendar) Queen of Prophets and Mediatrix of All Grace The new COVID-19 pandemic has revived interest [...] apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lipa City, Batangas, in 1948 had warned against “China’s dream of invading the whole world.” Cardinal Vidal, in a 2014 letter to the Catholic Bishops’ of the Conference of the [...] lead the people of the world to destruction.” “It is thus to the Queen of Prophets under her title of Mediatrix of All Grace to whom we will have recourse in order to avert the buildup of tension and to