June 27 - Saint Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church, (d. 444) - Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1866) A Venezuelan was healed of a poisonous snake bite thanks to Mary! A Venezuelan tribal chief [...] the faith. A church was built in honor of Our Lady of Coromoto in the nearby town of Guanare in the 1700s. Later, in the 1980s, a shrine was built at the location of the 1652 apparition. Both churches have [...] a process of restoration in 2009. Indigenous symbols found in the image, such as the style of the crowns worn by the Blessed Mother and Jesus, are authentic to the culture and time period of the Coromoto
June 4 – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1503) – First visit of Pope John Paul II to Poland (Marian Shrine of Czestochowa, 1979) The discrete and modest attitude of Mary When first [Jesus] went out to preach [...] her most radiant crown, and, without opposing voice, and amid the jubilation of the whole Church, she will be hailed as immaculate in her conception. John Henry Newman (1) Discourses of Mixed Congregations [...] Congregations - Discourse 17. The Glories of Mary for the Sake of Her Son (1) Cardinal John Henry Newman was canonized on 13 October 2019 by pope Francis
Lady Promoter of Peace (Le Puy-en-Velay, France) - Saint Peter Chrysologus, Doctor of the Church (d. 451) A monumental statue of Mary made of the recycled metal of over two hundred pieces of artillery ! [...] statue of Notre-Dame de France is an integral part of the image of the city of Le Puy-en-Velay. Tourists and pilgrims climb the path and the steps that lead to the foot of the statue. The statue of Notre-Dame [...] In 1850, the bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (southern France) launched the project for the installation of a monumental statue of the Virgin Mary on Mount Anis, above the basilica of Le Puy. In 1853, a competition
Joyful mysteries of Jesus' childhood (Annunciation of Jesus' birth to Mary, Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, Nativity, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, Finding of Jesus after he was lost during [...] that we speak of the "mysteries'' of the Rosary. The full Rosary used to include three 5-decade rosaries, corresponding to three series of "mysteries" of the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary: The Joyful [...] mysteries of Jesus' Passion (Agony, Scourging, Crowning with thorns, Carrying of the Cross, Crucifixion), and the Glorious mysteries (Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost, Assumption, Crowning of Mary). Reviving
In the Heart of Christ, who loves each one of you. (1) Benedictine Sisters of the Sacré Cœur of Montmartre (2) Community of Saint Martin (3) Notre Dame de L’Epine Sister Marie Charles of Jesus, Benedictine [...] Basilica of Montmartre, in Paris, I have been sent to found a new community of Benedictine Sisters (1) to serve the Basilica of Notre Dame de l'Épine (Our Lady of the Thorn), in the diocese of Chalons- [...] on the night of the Annunciation in 1400, the Virgin Mary appeared to some shepherds in a thorn bush shining bright in the middle of the night. We read in the Office of the Virgin Mary: "In the bush that
May 29 - Apparition of Mary to Sister Lucia of Fatima at the Tuy Convent (Spain, 1930) An apparition of Mary in a luminous boat In the first year after the foundation of the Deir Al-Maghti monastery in [...] apparitions at the monastery of Al-Maghti were well known in Ethiopia, thanks to the Book of Miracles of Mary. They are even mentioned in the Ethiopian Synaxarium, on the date of 21 Genbot / 21 Bachnas (May [...] Nestorian, Latin and even Muslim pilgrims. The faithful adopted the custom of throwing their turbans and scarves at the dome of the church during the apparitions, and sometimes the Virgin consented to touch
Father Guillaume de Menthière, pastor of the diocese of Paris and professor of theology, points out: "The motherhood of the Church must be inspired by the motherhood of Mary, because in order to know what she [...] May 21 – Memory of Mary Mother of the Church (Pentecost Monday) – Our Lady of Ergotism Sufferers (Arras, France, 1105) Happy Mother's Day, Mother of the Church! The Vatican just added to its official [...] beginning this year, each Monday of Pentecost becomes the day when the universal Church will celebrate the memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in her title of Mother of the Church. It is significant that
– French settlement of Ville-Marie (today’s Montreal, Canada) founded in 1642 by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve (d. 1676) "If you want to obtain the gift of perseverance, love Mary" As the Spanish Jesuit [...] same time, Saint Philip Neri was fond of telling his penitents in confession: “My children, if you want to obtain the gift of perseverance, love Mary, serve Mary! Because we fall and we get lost only when [...] the master of novices, begging him to keep an eye on them and to remain attentive to their progress. But soon what the Jesuit saint feared came to pass: all those novices lost the grace of their vocation
XI’s letter on France "Kingdom of Mary" (1922) Banneaux: The Virgin of the Poor Banneux is a small village southeast of Liège in French-speaking Belgium. In the winter of 1933, a young girl named Mariette [...] numbers. The site of the apparitions at Banneux was officially approved by the Catholic Church in 1949. The Shrine of the Virgin of the Poor includes the Sacred Spring, the Chapel of the Apparitions, a [...] that the Virgin Mary had appeared to her on eight separate occasions. Mariette was 11 years old at the time and came from a poor family of lapsed Catholics. Mariette first saw Our Lady of Banneux through
- Our Lady of Fire (Italy, 1428) - Saint Joan of France, foundress of the Order of the Virgin Mary known as the Annonciade (d. 1505) The Order of the Virgin Mary The Order of the Virgin Mary or the Annonciade [...] d by imitating the Virgin Mary as often as possible. At the school of Mary, the life of the Annonciades is built on a deep love of the Word of God, centered on the mystery of the Eucharist and nourished [...] her. The former Queen Joan of France was then given the title of Duchess of Berry. The "Good Duchess," who was to die young, founded the Order of the Annonciade with the help of her Franciscan confessor
