August 25 – Mary, Health of the Sick - Saint Louis, King of France (d. 1270) Today the Queen of the World took me out of Purgatory In Rome, on the day of the Assumption, a woman entered the basilica erected [...] thanksgiving, we are visiting the places dedicated to our glorious Lady, the Virgin Mary.” And, as proof of the reality of her apparition, the happy delivered woman told her friend that in a year’s time [...] erected on the Capitol in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There, she was greatly surprised to see one of her neighbors who had died the year before! “Aren’t you my neighbor Marozina, who has been dead
venturing too far in of course. I was amazed to find that the statue of the Virgin Mary was still there, although part of the vault of the nave near the choir had collapsed. What a shock! It was apocalyptic [...] the famous statue of the Virgin at the foot of the pillar had not been damaged! Second miracle: other treasures were spared. Christ’s crown of thorns acquired by Saint Louis and part of the cathedral treasure [...] treasure were transported to the Louvre in the morning after the fire. I think Our Lady will always stay at Notre Dame... Bishop Patrick Chauvet, Rector of Notre Dame Cathedral, which lost its roof and spire
intercession of Our Lady, as the story of the Wedding at Cana and the words of Christ from the Cross, "Behold your Mother" teach us, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary has been inscribed in the octave of the Nativity [...] 12 – Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, instituted after the liberation of Vienna from the Ottoman Empire (1683) The feast of the Holy Name of Mary reestablished after the terrorist attacks To remind Catholics [...] the world to the Virgin Mary: "Let us implore the Lord so that the spiral of hatred and violence does not prevail. May the Blessed Virgin, Mother of Mercy, awaken in everybody’s hearts thoughts of wisdom
Shortly after, this apparition having vanished, I saw Our Lord and Our Lady in a form which gave me the idea that it was Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord seemed to bless the world in the same way as Saint Joseph [...] and it seemed to me that I still saw Our Lady under the aspect of Our Lady of Carmel. Several times, Sister Lucia insisted on the importance of the scapular, notably on October 15, 1950 to Father Rafferty: [...] tableau in the guise of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Here is Lucia's testimony from her fourth memoir: “Once Our Lady disappeared into the immensity of the firmament, we saw, next to the sun, Saint Joseph
29 – End of the public apparitions at Laus in 1664 - approved in 1665 (Le Laus, France) At the foot of the Madonna of Penhors My grandmother, a native of Brittany, France, and an oral witness of this story [...] place every year in September to the chapel that stands a few steps away. And for centuries the locals have paid homage to Our Lady and invoked her protection. During the war of 1939-45, Brittany was invaded [...] story, told it to me many times. It is both simple and striking. Just above the beach of Penhors in Finistère, is a granite statue of the Madonna that looks at the sea and makes a gesture of blessing the
Damian, Doctor of the Church (d. 1072) – 6th apparition of Lourdes (France, 1858) The Green Scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary We all know of someone in our lives who is in need of healing. They might [...] in addition to forgiving his sins (cf. Matthew 9:1–8). One way to request from God such a healing or conversion is to use the Green Scapular, a sacramental of the Church that has been known to be an effective [...] a priest. It is reported that Our Lady said to Sister Justine, “The greatest graces come from using the scapular but these graces come in direct proportion to the degree of confidence in me which the user
May 20 – Our Lady of Graces (Cuneo, Italy, 1537) Mary is the perfect confidante, and she is so much more To be honest, in my childhood and teenage years, I never had a great, concrete devotion to the Blessed [...] out of shyness, kept to themselves and were more focused on God the Father. When I went to Paris for college, maybe because I was lonely, I often visited a side chapel of the Virgin, at the back of a church [...] church in the 5th arrondissement. I confided many things to her magnificent statue, in the semi-darkness of the church: my joys, my sorrows, my needs for encouragement, and my gratitude. She was the perfect
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes (France) about two years ago, I had already been to Lourdes several times on different occasions (with small groups, struggling people, youth pilgrimages, bishops’ conferences [...] there, listening to those who come to ask for God's forgiveness, I realize how Mary opens her arms to all sufferings, physical and emotional pains, all sorrows and fears, but also to personal plans and [...] or crooked), levels of faith (strong or stammering). Mary welcomes everyone. She consoles the afflicted, restores hope and confidence, opens the way to peace of heart. She leads us to her Son, she helps
January 15 - Our Lady of Banneux (Belgium, 1933) - First Apparition Above All Other Created Souls (II) Within her virginal womb Christ our Lord already bore the exalted title of Head of the Church; in [...] mother of our Head, through the added title of pain and glory became, according to the Spirit, the mother of all His members. It was she who, through her powerful prayers, obtained that the spirit of our [...] confidence the tremendous burden of her sorrows and desolation, she, truly the Queen of Martyrs, more than all the faithful “filled up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ...for His Body, which
March 12 – Our Lady of the Elm (Italy, 1610) How could Mary have been anything but silent? Tradition says that the three inhabitants of the holy house of Nazareth hardly ever spoke. The gentle celestial [...] we imagine as being part of the life of the Holy Family only took place in our imagination; they never happened. There was a deeper silence there than in the loneliness of our tears or in Chartreux Abbey [...] soul reduced to silence. She had been with Jesus for twelve long years, long years in relation to the formation of habits, although they would have passed for Mary as a holy ecstasy, full of painful love
