had a side chapel called "Our Lady of Miracles" with a very ancient statue of a Black Madonna to whom many faithful came to pray. Saint Joan of Arc herself came to pray there in May 1429. In June 1940 [...] September 17 – Our Lady of the Virtues and Glories of Mary (La Flèche, France) The chapel of miracles remained completely intact In Orléans (France), near the Loire River, the parish church of Saint Paul had [...] large portion of the historic district, including Saint Paul Church. But the chapel with the statue of "Our Lady of Miracles" remained completely intact. Older parishioners tell the story of a chair that
December 20 – Our Lady of Folgoët (France) They left because of her; 30 years later she got a surprise Joseph made frequent stops towards the end of the trip, because the Blessed Virgin was increasingly [...] rested. The mistress of the house kept to herself... She had noticed with jealous eyes the beauty of the Blessed Virgin. Fearing, moreover, that Mary would ask to stay at her house to deliver her baby, she [...] the man was perfectly kind to them. He arranged for them to have a convenient room and took care of their donkey. A servant washed Joseph's feet and gave him a clean set of clothes while his own clothes
front of which the miracle took place to the Church of Protaton, where it is still exposed to veneration behind the altar, as "Sovereign, Higoumene, and Protector of the Holy Mountain." The icon of the Axion [...] May 23 - Our Lady of La Linda (Peru, 1664) Revelation of the Axion Estin by the Archangel Gabriel (II) When the hieromonk heard the story of the apparition and saw the engraved slate upon his return, he [...] "the Garden of the Mother of God." The icon has only left the mountain on three occasions: to be venerated by the people in 1963, 1985 and 1987, when it received the honors due to a head of state. On Easter
January 5 – Our Lady of Good Counsel (Bergamo, Italy) Two apparitions separated by four centuries at the shrine of “Madonna dei Campi” in Bergamo, Italy In the 12th century in the fields to the west of Stezzano [...] apparition of the Madonna to a woman gathered in prayer. One of the frescoes of the church, depicting the Virgin holding Baby Jesus in her arms, began to exude water in the early summer of 1586. The phenomenon [...] revealed the extraordinary nature of the events. The small church was transformed into a sanctuary in the late 1600s. Adapted from: sanctuary-of-our-lady-of-prayer-of-stezzano
September 24 – Our Lady of Walsingham (England) The "Nazareth" of England The "Ballad of Walsingham" contained in a 15 th -century manuscript (1) tells the story of an apparition of the Virgin Mary to a widowed [...] miracles were attributed to Our Lady of Walsingham, including the protection of King Edward I who was saved from a falling piece of masonry wall. In the 14th century, the “Miraculous House of Norfolk” in Walsingham [...] widowed noblewoman, Lady Richedis, who wanted to do something for the honor of Our Lady. On three occasions, the Virgin led her to Nazareth "in spirit" and showed her the place where the Archangel Gabriel had
handful of those 40,000 communes - less than 10 in fact - had no casualties and no monument to the dead to build. These memorial monuments are so familiar to the French that they hardly take notice of them [...] March 1 – Our Lady of Machaby (Italy, 1800) – 12th apparition at Lourdes (France, 1858) Mary brought back all the men of this French village safely from the war On November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m., all [...] enough to have not lost any of its children: about thirty young men who had gone to war on August 3, 1914, the day the war was declared. In Fresnes, from that first fateful day, the women went to the church
November 10 – Our Lady of Almudena (Madrid, Spain) - Saint Leo the Great, pope (d. 461) November is the month of the souls in Purgatory "The pains of purgatory are compared to the waves, because they last [...] endeavor to remember them in all our prayers to the blessed Virgin, applying to them especially the Holy Rosary, which procures for them great relief.” Saint Alphonsus of Liguori In The Glories of Mary VIII [...] certain time, unlike the pains of hell that do not pass; and they are compared to the waves of the sea because of their extreme bitterness. "I have penetrated the depths of this abyss" (Sir 24:5). This abyss
April 9 - Our Lady of Myans (Savoy, France) The Program set Before the Church of the Third Millennium To contemplate the face of Christ, and to contemplate it with Mary, is the "program" which I have set [...] at the dawn of the third millennium, summoning her to put out into the deep on the sea of history with the enthusiasm of the new evangelization. To contemplate Christ involves being able to recognize Him [...] is both a mystery of faith and a "mystery of light". Whenever the Church celebrates the Eucharist, the faithful can in some way relive the experience of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus: "their eyes
guided by Saint Nil of Rossano. The humble Saint Nil sought to flee honors and then went to Rome to end his days in peace. According to tradition, it is in the crypt of the monastery of Grottaferrata that [...] 22 – Our Lady of the Milk (Italy) The Mother of God with her tender gaze The Byzantine Rite Catholic Abbey of Saint Mary in Grottaferrata, near Frascati, Italy, was founded in 1004 by a group of monks [...] that the Mother of God appeared to Nil and his companion, Bartholomew. She asked them to build a church there dedicated to her, from which she would dispense her graces. Saint Nil died shortly after, and
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 to look at the grotto. Bernadette saw a Lady dressed [...] Soubirous was wary and forbid her daughter to return to the grotto of Massabielle. But the following Sunday, she gave in to Bernadette's friends and gave them permission to go. Arriving at the grotto, the visionary [...] 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"
