number of pilgrims, including thousands of young people. The Middle Ages, which, especially through Saint Bernard, sang Mary's glory and celebrated her mysteries, witnessed a marvelous flowering of French

1900, by a favor obtained from Pope Leon XIII. In 1910, Our Lady of Itati was proclaimed Patron Saint of the newly created diocese, the current diocese of Corrientes in the north of Argentina. Today a

lunched with Professor Jerome Lejeune, his wife and another guest, then he peacefully made his way to Saint Peter’s Square for the General Audience. While he made a tour of the square and approached the bronze

and fear. Angela has set up a home prayer table that includes wooden dolls of biblical figures and saints. Being able to hold something is a big help to the kids, she explained. The family sings hymns and

September 2 - Our Lady of Nettles (Germany, 1441) Mary’s love for us is a great blessing Pope Saint John Paul II wrote, “Mary always reminds us of the salvific value of the work of Jesus, our only Savior

united to God? How could Limbo open its gates to her? How could corruption touch the life-giving body? Saint John of Damascus, Sermon II, On the Assumption (excerpts)

Rosary at Pompeii goes back to Blessed Bartolo Longo, who converted from satanism and became, as Saint John Paul II said at his beatification, “a man of Mary.” Bartolo felt Our Lady told him that his path

tend to confuse us. In reality it is not God who is absent, it 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

political framework of Jesus’ time. Apocryphal texts, especially James’ proto-gospel, suggest that Saint Anne, Mary’s mother, was born in Sepphoris, and possibly Mary herself. A three-aisled church built

an apparition of the Child Jesus in the grotto of Bethlehem, held by the Blessed Virgin Mary, with Saint Joseph at her side, took place on Christmas Eve in the village of Ferrières-en-Gâtinais (central France)