November 15 - Our Lady of Piety (Byzantine Church) - Saint Albert the Great Mary is the Channel of Grace The Blessed Virgin is the hope of forgiveness for those who are sorry for their sins and expiate [...] one will recall the example of the miracle of Theophilus, whom Mary reformed by the grace of forgiveness. But those above, innocent in grace, have in Mary the channel of that grace, by which they are [...] by pity and mercy, she speaks persuasively to her Son, interceding for sinners, and, by the support of her merits, she restores the repentant to the level of grace they had lost.
October 27 - Our Lady of Charity (Cuba) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (IX) O Blessed Rosary of Mary, Sweet chain which unites us to God, Bond of love which unites us to the angels, Tower of salvation against [...] assaults of Hell, Safe port in our universal shipwreck, We will never abandon you. You will be our comfort in the hour of death: Yours our final kiss as life ebbs away, And the last word from our lips Will [...] Will be your sweet name, O Queen of the Rosary of Pompeii, O dearest Mother, O Refuge of Sinners, O Sovereign Consoler of the Afflicted. May you be everywhere blessed, Today and always, On earth and in
August 5 - Our Lady of the Snows Good Mother of God Good Mother of God, treasure of mercy and grace, You are our refuge and our hope, Protect us, O Mary, and have mercy on our deceased. Although you are [...] are our mother, our hope, our glory and our refuge, Intercede for us to your Son, And ask him to forgive us our sins through His mercy. Desert us not, O Good Mary, O full of all grace, Save all of your
October 28 – Our Lady of La Treille (Lille, France) The greatest miracle of Medjugorje Polish Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga, named by Pope Francis in February to study the pastoral situation [...] town and the needs of pilgrims, held a news conference April 5th after a week in Medjugorje. He told reporters, "the biggest miracle of Medjugorje are the confessions" of hundreds of people each day. " [...] packed celebrations of the Mass, eucharistic adoration, conversion stories and the reports of hundreds of Catholics who cite an experience in Medjugorje as key in their following a vocation to the priesthood
August 5 - Our Lady of the Snows Good Mother of God Good Mother of God, treasure of mercy and grace, You are our refuge and our hope, Protect us, O Mary, and have mercy on our deceased. Although you are [...] are our mother, our hope, our glory and our refuge, Intercede for us to your Son, And ask him to forgive us our sins through His mercy. Desert us not, O Good Mary, O full of all grace, Save all of your
- Slavic Byzantine Church, Our Lady of Prokov - Saint Romanos the Melodist (6th C.) The Cantor of the Virgin Mary The only authority for the life and date of this greatest of Greek hymn-writers is the account [...] in the church at Berytus, and came to Constantinople during the reign of Anastasios. It was in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos that he received the charisma of sacred poetry from the Blessed Virgin [...] marveled and glorified God. He went up to the ambo and began the strains of his he parthenos semeron ton hyperousion tiktei. After this improvisation for the feast of the Nativity, he composed about one thousand
June 27 - Saint Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church, (d. 444) - Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1866) A significant Greek victory on the day of the Annunciation On March 21, 1821 the Greek rebels [...] Patron Germanos called on Greeks to revolt and raised the flag of the revolution, a banner depicting the Assumption of Virgin Mary that was on the gate of the Temple of Agia Lavra. The Greek chieftains [...] rebels started the siege of Kalavryta, making it the first Greek town that was liberated from the Ottomans, thus declaring the start of the Greek War of Independence. In the morning of March 21, 600 armed fighters
October 3 – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1697) The Rosary and the “Polish Lepanto” of 1621 The Dominican Basilica of the Trinity in Krakow, Poland, houses a large chapel dedicated to the Mother of God, Virgin [...] Virgin of the Rosary. The icon that adorns its main altar is a copy of the famous icon “Salus Populi Romani,” the same icon that Pope Gregory the Great carried in procession in order to end the plague of 597 [...] protection of Europe from Ottoman domination. In 1600, Cardinal Maciejowski brought back a copy of the famous icon to Krakow, acquired in Rome. This icon played a special role in the "Polish Lepanto" of 1621
- Slavic Byzantine Church, Our Lady of Prokov - Saint Romanos the Melodist (6th C.) The Cantor of the Virgin Mary The only authority for the life and date of this greatest of Greek hymn-writers is the account [...] in the church at Berytus, and came to Constantinople during the reign of Anastasios. It was in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos that he received the charisma of sacred poetry from the Blessed Virgin [...] marveled and glorified God. He went up to the ambo and began the strains of his he parthenos semeron ton hyperousion tiktei. After this improvisation for the feast of the Nativity, he composed about one thousand
March 16 - Our Lady of the Fountain (Constantinople, 460) The Silence of the Holy Family (III) Between the Creator and the creature, in a relationship such as the one that existed between Jesus and Mary [...] not have carried the weight of the mother's thoughts, let alone those of the Son. Speaking would have been an effort - a condescension - like descending a mountain, on behalf of Mary as well as Jesus. And [...] Joseph did not need to. He also remained quite high among the mountains of silence, so high that no voice, I might say that not even the softest echo from earth, could resound up to him.
