(Seville, Spain) Our Lady of the Kings, the "Virgen de los Reyes" The Virgen de los Reyes is the patron saint of Seville, Spain (Andalusia). She is celebrated on August 15, feast of the Assumption, with a large

oppressed, you averted our disaster, walking in the straight path before our God.” (Judith 13:20). Pope Saint John Paul II. Homily at Fatima, May 13, 1982 Library of Marian Writings

breast to his lips, and we too can offer him the varied meal of good deeds that are his delight. Saint Peter Damian (d. 1072), hermit and later bishop of Ostia, cardinal and doctor of the Church

loved; society will become Christian, won to Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer. Saint Julian Eymard Adoperp

and called her "La Pequeñita" (the Little Girl). In 1985, Our Lady of Quinche was declared patron saint of Ecuador. Source: Attilio GALLI, Madre della Chiesa dei Cinque Continenti, Ed. Segno, Udine, 1997

homily, Bishop Yves Le Saux of Le Mans recalled the essence of the episcopal mission, by referring to Saint Ignatius of Antioch in his letter to the Ephesians: "We are men of prayer, missionary disciples. We

the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel,” Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (Saint John Paul II) said on November 9, 1976. One thing, however, is certain: The final victory belongs

evident that if virginity, too, was able to please God, it is undoubtedly due to humility first. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

the sorrow inflicted on me?" (Lm 1:12). At the time of the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Here is the Heart which loved humankind so

in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third