lay traps for the upright man, since he annoys us and opposes our way of life" (...) "He claims to have knowledge of our God and calls himself a child of the Lord" (...) "Let us condemn him to a shameful

the prophecy of the little stone that became a mountain, “It was foretold that Jesus Christ was to have lowly beginnings and would grow in stature.”

Pilgrims touched thousands of objects against the frail cotton cloth. This rough treatment should have destroyed it, but repaired itself somehow and goes on unscathed. Pope Pius VII declared Our Lady of

which, according to popular legend, was painted by St Luke the Evangelist. St Luke is believed to have used a tabletop from a table built by Jesus. While Luke was painting the portrait of Mary, she told

liras? Perhaps that poor fellow has no work and maybe his family has nothing to eat.” Gianni would have preferred to see some candles on his window sill, but Franco insisted so much that he won. In the

without a police escort. The siren broke down after a few hundred meters. The journey that would usually have taken at least half an hour took us eight minutes, and in Roman traffic! Later, the Holy Father told

old Arab medina , city leaders called it "Church of Mary of the Almenuda." The original statue could have been made at that time. The present statue dates from around the year 1500. Our Lady of Almudena was

special prayer is said twice a year at Pompeii, telling her, “O Queen … We shall not leave You until You have blessed us.” Adapted by the Marie de Nazareth editorial team from Vatican News and Aleteia

is we who live "absent from him" (Saint Teresa of Avila). It is not God who goes away, it is we who have left Nazareth. It is not God’s hour that is delayed, but we who are no longer waiting for it. In Nazareth

“Not being able to see allows me not to get so distracted by external things, although, internally, I have to make the same effort, so often difficult, to achieve concentration and interior silence. Also,