Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) Mary was a mountain which rose above all mountains She was a mountain which rose above all other created height, by the dignity of her election. Was not Mary a lofty mountain [...] summit of the mountains . It was indeed a mountain on the mountain’s top, because the elevation of Mary shone above that of all the saints. Pope Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) Saint Gregory the Great [...] Great mystically interpreted Mount Ephraim mentioned in the first book of Kings as the Virgin Mary.

August 30 - Mary Mediatrix (Belgium) – Holy Virgin of Cárquere (Portugal) A first ripple caused all the others The mystery of the Blessed Virgin is the first repercussion of the mystery of the Incarnation [...] stone thrown into the water that causes multiple ripples: the first concentric circle is the Virgin Mary in relation to the Incarnation. The consecutive circles are from the Church, and these will continue [...] continue their outward movement until the end of time. Cardinal Charles Journet, Entretiens sur Marie - Éditions Parole et Silence 2001 (Word and Silence)

August 31 - Transfer or “Deposition” of the Holy Belt of the Theotokos to the Church of Holy Mary of Hakopratia, Constantinople (Orthodox feast) Healed by touching the Blessed Virgin’s Holy Belt This is [...] The term “deposition” refers to the transfer of the Holy Belt of Theotokos to the Church of Virgin Mary of Hakopratia, Constantinople. This miraculous event dates back to the year 395, when the son of [...] has been treasured to this day. Today, the celebration of the Deposition of the Holy Belt of Virgin Mary concludes the Ecclesiastical year. Taken from Romfea

August 15 – Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Mary, Paradise of the New Adam Today the holy Virgin of Virgins is presented in the heavenly temple. Virginity in her was so strong as to be a

footsteps of Mary the Virgin Mother who bore and gave the world the Savior. This popular prophecy was like a political reflection or an echo of the famous comparison between Eve and Mary. Saint Joan of [...] August 4 - 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 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 at the Tereasianum Pontifical Faculty

July 27 - Canonization of Catherine Labouré by Pius XII, attended by 10,000 children of Mary wearing white (1947) – King of France, Philip Augustus attributes his resounding victory to the Blessed Virgin

August 3 - France: Act of Consecration to Mary inspired by Saint Peter Damien and approved by the Archbishop of Cambrai (1626) We don't have enough words to thank the Blessed Virgin My wife Laetitia and [...] and I have been readers of A Moment with Mary for two years now , and we attentively meditate on these short daily texts. On May 5, 2019, we discovered in the daily meditation the prayer of the novena by

July 26 - Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary The limits imposed by Covid-19 have transformed families While the continuing coronavirus pandemic has forced the public to spend much [...] important, because, as noted on the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary website , it is the hour that recalls Jesus’ death on the cross and the hour that God, in His revelations

Loyola, founder of the Jesuits (d. 1556) - Ethiopian Church: Feast of the Densata (Conception of Mary) Mary is at the origin of Saint Ignatius’ conversion He was awake one night and clearly saw an image

Maria’ (People in love with Mary) and that we belong to you absolutely, totally, always and forever. We are all yours and all that we have is yours, O most loving Jesus through Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace [...] 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 [...] disclosure by the late Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal that the alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lipa City, Batangas, in 1948 had warned against “China’s dream of invading the whole world.” Cardinal