Pauline led the small group meetings by sending circular letters, which became for these members what Saint Paul's letters were for the first Christians. She broadened the prayers of the members to the scope

the priests to build a chapel here and to come in procession." These words from the Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette of Lourdes resonate with me. One year, when I was between jobs and got a breather, I decided

Catholic Church, with all the great feasts, solemnities, memorial feasts and other feasts of the saints in every country, that punctuate the liturgical year. Instead, because we at A Moment with Mary have

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, because on July 16, 1251, Our Lady appeared to a holy English Carmelite, Saint Simon Stock, handed him a brown woolen scapular and said: “Receive, my beloved son, this habit of

these apparitions is the Rosary. Starting with Lourdes, France, in 1858, when Our Lady appeared to Saint Bernadette Soubirous holding rosary beads in her hand—and even praying part of the Rosary with Be

venerated this image in its midst, well before the parish church was built in 1795. It was a priest, Saint Ezekiel Moreno, who first encouraged this devotion, because the Virgin of Consolation was the patroness

want to put a limit to the power and mercy of God by saying that the time of miracles is long gone. Saint John Bosco (1815-1888) Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the mountain of La Salette, France (Turin

incalculable historical consequences In 1920, the same year that Karol Wojtyla, the future Polish Pope Saint John Paul II, was born, the Red Army swept over the fledgling Polish republic. Between August 14 and

not been damaged! Second miracle: other treasures were spared. Christ’s crown of thorns acquired by Saint Louis and part of the cathedral treasure were transported to the Louvre in the morning after the fire

following the burial, was too intimate to report to us, but we could meditate on it with the words of Saint Vincent Ferrer, who traced a maybe simplified description of Mary's attitude—an unwavering confidence