May 7 – Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) Mother Teresa took a Miraculous Medal out of her bag Nicaragua was under a radical left-wing regime in the 1980s. Mother Teresa, now Saint Teresa of Calcutta [...] (the famous medal the Virgin gave to Saint Catherine Labouré) out of her bag for each of the soldiers. A few days later, she received permission to send her Sisters to Nicaragua! Alliance Mariale [...] a Mass at a site of apparitions in that country when a hundred armed soldiers arrived and approached the group. Instead of panicking, Mother Teresa walked up to the soldiers and took a Miraculous Medal

January 26 - Our Lady of Life (France) - Birth of Cardinal Charles Journet (1891) Let us not reduce the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary We should approach the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary only [...] very luminous mystery, and he who lacks what is necessary to draw near to it - as is the case with each of us, because of our resistance and our mental clumsiness - will inevitably belittle it, or distort [...] through his own lens. We must ask the Blessed Virgin herself to open our hearts and to make them transparent, so that we won't reduce her mystery to our measure, but instead be changed in her light. Cardinal

June 29 - Our Lady of Buglose (France, 1634) Mary, Mother of the Living Carry me on the wings of your prayers, O you who are called the Mother of the living, so that on my exit from this valley of tears I [...] I may be able to advance without torment to the dwelling of life that has been prepared for us to lighten the end of a life burdened by my iniquity. (...) Be solicitous for me for I am miserable, O Tabernacle [...] Tabernacle of the Most High. Hold out your hand to me as I fall, O heavenly Temple. Glorify your Son in you: may he be pleased to operate Divinely in me the miracle of forgiveness and mercy. Servant and

August 9 - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) Mary the Sign of Created Hope (I) In the meanwhile just as the Mother of Jesus, glorified in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church [...] which will be perfected in the world to come, so too does she shine forth on earth, until the day of the Lord comes, as a sign of sure hope and solace to the people of God during their sojourn on earth. [...] It gives great joy and comfort to this holy and general Synod that even among the separated brethren there are some who give due honor to the Mother of our Lord and Saviour, especially among the Orientals

The devotion to Our Lady of Béhuard goes back to Saint Maurilius, disciple of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop of Angers, who erected a statue of the Virgin on the volcanic rock of Béhuard to honor her nativity [...] 8 – Nativity of the Virgin Mary – Our Lady of the Kneeling Woman (France, 1550) How the Virgin asked for the celebration of her birthday Béhuard is a village located on a small island of the Loire River [...] year of the Council of Ephesus (present-day Turkey) where Mary was proclaimed "Mother of God" ( Theotokos in Greek). A year earlier, in 430, the Virgin had appeared to Saint Maurilius, asking him to establish

May 22 - Our Lady of the Virgin's Mount (Naples, Italy) Revelation of the Axion Estin by the Archangel Gabriel (I) Some distance from Karyes, the capital of Mount Athos, in the direction of the Monastery [...] front of the icon of the Mother of God, the stranger sang the same hymn with the following prelude: "We do well to call thee blest, the Theotokos, the ever-blessed and all-immaculate and Mother of our God [...] welcomed him inside to spend the night. They joined each other at dawn to sing the Office of Orthros in the chapel. But when they reached the ninth ode, although the disciple began to sing the anthem "More

the river to the ends of the earth" (Zech 9:10; cf. Mt 21:5). He will lead nations "with an iron scepter" (Ps 2:1-9). "His empire shall stretch from sea to sea, from the river to the limits of the earth" [...] December 14 - Our Lady of Alba Royale (Hungary, 1005) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (V) "His dominion is an everlasting dominion" (Dan 7:14) Israel's and the Blessed Virgin's exceptancy was for [...] from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth" (Zech 9:9-10). God's small stone "became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth" (Dan 2:35) and his empire "will be from sea to sea, and

September 27 - Our Lady of Alcazar (Toledo, Spain) The Saving Grace of the Rosary Grandfather was a slate worker. He went to work every morning, on foot, reciting his rosary. At that time, there was no [...] What should he do? Continue on his way to work or go back home to get it? He made his decision quickly, turned around and ran back home. He returned in haste, but got to work 10 minutes late. His fellow workers [...] came home that evening and told me the news, I trembled from head to foot. Since this occurrence, the rosary has had the place of honor in our family. We will never forget that it preserved us from many a

Dedication of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Puy, Queen of France She saw the Virgin Mary appear on top of a dolmen Our Lady of the Puy-en-Velay Shrine (southern France) is the oldest site of Marian apparitions [...] Christian woman begged God to heal her. Suddenly, she saw the Virgin Mary on the dolmen. An angel told her: "The Queen of Heaven has chosen this place to make it her domain, to receive and to answer prayers.” The [...] She went to her bishop to tell him what had happened. After investigating, the bishop ordered the construction of the requested shrine, over the foundations of the old temple. The consecration of this oratory

November 6: Our Lady of Valfleury (France) When the island of Montreal became "Ville-Marie" Jerome Le Royer, lord of La Dauversière (1597-1659), is the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph [...] Candlemas (feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of Mary), as he prayed before a statue of Our Lady, Le Royer felt called to found a nursing religious congregation to serve the [...] Joseph of La Flèche (in 1636), and one of the founders of Ville-Marie, the future Montreal (Canada). Born into a Breton family, Le Royer was admitted in 1608 to the Royal College of La Flèche (France),