beauty and more with his friend the journalist Valérie Trierweiler. In the interview, the actor evoked the place of religion in his life, with a special accent on the Virgin Mary. "Mary is my passion.. [...] Our Lady of Hope (Italy, 1755) "Mary is my passion" As always, French movie actor Alain Delon does not mince words. On January 12, 2018, Delon was featured in a special issue of the French magazine "Paris [...] . I talk to her, I tell her things, I ask her things. She brings me a kind of comfort and company that I do not have. She is always there." Elle
taught us the Hail Mary—the simplest of prayers, made up of two salutations to Mary: the first from the Archangel Gabriel and the second from Mary’s cousin Elizabeth, when she was pregnant with the baby who [...] was encouraged to decorate a special shrine erected to honor Mary during May, the month traditionally devoted to honoring Jesus’s Mother. As a family we prayed the Rosary every night, taking it in turns [...] as she was to her bed in a nursing home, we prayed the Rosary together whenever I visited her. I also prayed this prayer, so precious to us all, with Mary’s family as we sat with her the day before she passed
transferred to Loreto (Italy, 1295) – Founding of the Legion of Mary (Dublin, Ireland, 1921) Before Mary, the chains of hell cannot stand A man and his wife, after their children had grown up, resolved to [...] to restrain him. In anger, she uttered these imprudent words: "If I have a child, I’ll give it to the devil." The Evil One heard it. A son was born, handsome in body, soul and spirit. Full of remorse, his [...] morning, the priest celebrated Mass and the child served, but at the moment of communion the boy disappeared suddenly, carried away by Satan who was on the watch. The priest, sobbing with grief, fell at
around 2 am, a phone rang: an old woman about to die was asking for a priest. When she was a young girl, she had attended a Catholic school. There, a nun taught her for three years, and she became a Catholic [...] - Consecration of Luxembourg to Mary, consoler of the Afflicted (1666) I always had Mary’s chain in my hands In 1948, in the "Wooden Bridge," a suburb of Tokyo, Japan, a thousand old men and homeless people [...] family’s choice of a husband, and married a Buddhist monk who owned a temple, far in the mountains. She moved there and her duties involved maintaining the temple. Her husband would have allowed her to go
explained. People who come here have “a biography in their heart made up of joy and hidden sorrows, products of love and of unspeakable hatreds.” To be with these persons is a unique experience for me. I thank [...] Virgin Mary can smooth out obstacles The Shrine dedicated to the Virgin of Pompeii at Raja Rampur, on the outskirts of Dinajpur, in Bangladesh, is a place of dialogue between religions, “lived in a special [...] continued the priest. Raja Rampuris is a prized destination to entrust oneself to the “Mother of God,” whose image is displayed also in Muslims’ homes and before which women, kneeling on a mat, pray calling
pilgrimages. This year, 2018, during the great procession, a banner representing a group of Middle Eastern Christians was visible. Many of them have fled their war-torn countries held by jihadists to seek [...] Assumption pilgrimage in Lourdes, a special Mass was celebrated for Middle East refugees. “When they left their country, they lost everything: belongings, job, land, and a future,” said Bishop Pascal Gollnisch [...] make the pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. Recently, Church officials acknowledged their plight with a Mass. Lourdes, the city of miracles recognized by the Catholic Church, has always attracted dozens of different
They asked the faithful to bring miraculous medals with them to have them blessed by the priests and bury them on the seashore, while asking the Virgin Mary to intercede to protect Ireland against evil. Olivier [...] Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary or the Annonciades (d. 1505) The day that Ireland was encircled by the Rosary The Rosary on the Borders, an event in Poland that gathered a large number of Catholics on [...] Saturday, October 7, 2017, has been replicated. First by a the National Rosary in Italy on Friday, October 13th, "to follow the teachings of Mary and to follow the very good example given by our Polish
Like every son, Jesus must have had a special bond with his mother. That is why He gave her to us, from the cross, as a mother, when he said, "Woman, here is your son." Since Mary is our mother she walks [...] Cathedral to Mary (Spain, 1075) Mary is our mother Father Yves Sarrasin, from Orsières, Switzerland, is a member of the Third Order of the Eucharistein Fraternity. Every year, he organizes a Marian pilgrimage [...] org asked him this question: “What can one say to a young person who does not understand Mary’s place in the Christian faith?” This is what he said: “Mary was there at each stage of Jesus' life, from his
the Algerian town of Oran. A terrible cholera epidemic broke out in September 1849. In a little more than a month, it took nearly 2,000 victims out of a population estimated at less than 30,000 inhabitants [...] that the French in Algeria developed a special affection for Our Lady of Santa Cruz. They built her a chapel two years later, which was eventually transformed into a magnificent shrine overlooking the bay [...] Aidour, a buttress of Mount Murdjajo on which the Spaniards, who had long been present in the region, had built the fort of Santa Cruz in the 16th century. They brought a statue of Our Lady with them. The
When he died in 1716, Saint Louis was just 43 years old, having been a priest for only 16 years. Tireless labors to bring souls to Jesus through Mary, especially by his preaching an endless succession of [...] for Jesus, Mary, and souls. Saint Louis's passion and zeal lit a fire in young Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope Saint John Paul II. A few years before his death, the pope was able to realize a lifelong dream [...] 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) Saint Louis de Montfort, the warrior of Jesus and Mary Take a look at a map of France. Now notice something about its shape. See how one part sticks way out almost
