famous throughout Portugal. Today, traces of the altar and the church dating from the Romanesque period have been found. In the 19 th century, a large part of this religious heritage was lost by the secularization

children. When the children are afraid, they go to the mother: ‘Mom, mom … I’m scared!’ When they have bad dreams … they go to their mothers. “Go to the Madonna; she guards us. And the Fathers of the Church

servant. She appeared to him, wiped his wounds with her milk, and said: "Don’t be afraid. Since you have served me well, I will not let you die in such a miserable manner. You will see that I know how to

this Council of the motherly role of the Virgin among the Christian people. To achieve this aim, We have felt it opportune to Consecrate in this very public Session a title which was suggested in honor of

voice speaking straight to his heart and clearly asking him, "Would you become a priest, my child? You have been unfaithful to the call of my Son, but it is nevertheless your only vocation. Remember your love

became one of the most frequented centers of pilgrimage in Ireland. Over three hundred miraculous cures have been reported there and at least a million pilgrims now visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock each

will do the miracle so everyone believes. If they hadn't imprisoned you in town, the miracle would have been far more known. Saint Joseph will come with the Child Jesus to give peace to the world. Our Lord

was not happy, but man paid no heed. Then, Mary appeared to the couple's daughter and asked her to have the icon placed in a church located between the two major basilicas of St Mary Major and St John Lateran

overawed in the same manner, and he suddenly had the idea to become Catholic. A few months later, having overcome his prejudices against priests, he attended Mass numerous times. On August 8, in Germany

apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father Antoine Lambert. After having finished questioning the seer, he celebrated Mass. That morning, a woman with a serious nervous disease