he had to kill her to make her talk. The morning of August 13th, some men arrived at the Marto family's house with an ironmonger who pretended to have come to see the miracle too. He managed to convince [...] Prison (Portugal, 1917) The Missed Appointment of Fatima On the 10th of August 1917, the parents of the Fatima seers were ordered by the county administrator to appear at noon the next day, with their children [...] disappeared. At that moment there appeared a man-sized rainbow. Our Lady had indeed, apparently, kept her appointment of the 13th of August 1917.

the Coptic Patriarch: liturgical feast of the Apparitions of Zeitoun – Death of Pope John Paul II (2005) The significance of the Zeitoun apparitions Zeitoun is one of the locations where the Holy Family [...] would begin with a ball of light gradually materializing, and then, taking on the form of the Virgin Mary. One described Mary as “bright as a million suns.” They called her Our Lady of Light. She was accompanied [...] being targeted: red crosses painted on their houses to mark them. This was also a time of rapid expansion of Islamic fundamentalism. The miraculous nature of the apparitions drew Egypt’s full attention. Black

the eyes of the women, but I knew they were tears of healing. Someone was speaking the truth in love to their hearts, to a place that so desperately needed to be reached with God’s message of mercy. After [...] Death of St Bernadette Soubirous in Nevers, France (1879) Those were tears of healing (II) At the jail of Vanier, Quebec, Father West spoke of God’s boundless love for each person from the moment of conception [...] That evening two of the women who had come to Mass put in requests to see a priest for confession. One of them told me it had been many years since she had received the sacrament of Reconciliation, and

sanctified them for that very moment and mission, delegated his paternity to them. Father Caffarel, founder of Teams of Our Lady ( Equipes Notre-Dame ) In Des équipes Notre-Dame à la Maison de prière , [...] (Jerusalem) - Synaxes of the Mother of God (Byzantine Church) The normal course of things has been upturned Looking at the sleeping Child, Joseph and Mary understand that the normal course of things has been [...] The normal course of things is that parents desire a child and decide for it to come. But this Child chose his father and his mother. From all eternity, the Father of heaven has thought of this Child, it

Mass and hear confessions at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in the heart of Paris. Saint Catherine Labouré was a novice with the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul when she received [...] November 17 – Mary Gate of Dawn (Lithuania) 2020 marks the 190th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at the Rue du Bac in Paris Pope Francis blessed a statue of the Immaculate Virgin Mary of the Miraculous Medal [...] Medal at the end of his general audience on November 11, 2020. The statue will soon begin to travel around Italy as part of an evangelization initiative by the Vincentian Congregation of the Mission. The

There are thousands of “inexplicable healings” reported every year at Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine (France), one of the most visited shrines in the world. However, only a minute number of these “healings” are [...] Blessed Virgin of Ephesus (Russia, 988) - Saint John Leonardi, founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God (d. 1609) An eminent agnostic scientist’s opinion on the healing miracles of Lourdes There [...] unaware of the rigor of the Church’s studies and uninformed about how the Church validates or rejects the thousands of “apparent miracles” presented for examination. For many people, the concept of “miracle”

never suffer eternal fire. It is the mark of salvation when in danger and of the happy possession of life that will never end." Devotion to the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel spread not only among the [...] voluntarily deprived himself of the conversation of men, he enjoyed that of the Virgin Mary and the angels, who urged him to persevere in his life of renunciation and love. The Queen of Heaven told him that he [...] she pronounced the sweet name of Mary. All it took to soothe his cries was to present him with an image of the Virgin Mary. He was not yet a year old when he was heard to pronounce the angelic salutation

1945. Edmond went in search of the statue that he managed to find and extract, with great difficulties, from the basement of the communist city hall of Amiens. He was able to have the statue repaired, requiring [...] 11 - Paul VI declared Mary "Mother of the Church" (1964) He was a Man of God (II) After his conversion, Edmond Fricoteaux conceived the idea of showing his gratitude to the Blessed Virgin. He felt that God [...] the consent of the local bishop, the support of a religious congregation and - this is very important - the Blessed Virgin will have to show her Child." The bishop was found in the Diocese of Pontoise and

across France and ended at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy in Pellevoisin. The idea for the painting came from Father Laurent Flichy, rector of Our Lady of Pellevoisin, and Brother Jean-Baptiste Garrigou, an [...] Archbishop Beau of Bourges. This fresco will be a memorial to the recent pilgrimage of The M of Mary attended by thousands of pilgrims in the summer of 2020, which covered hundreds of kilometers across [...] April 17 – Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) Publish my glory! The Shrine of Pellevoisin in central France, a site of Marian apparitions, has a new fresco depicting the coronation of the Virgin Mary.

have a sudden, urgent situation to present to God in prayer or we just want to fill some of our day with thoughts of God, all we need to do is pull out the beads and turn to the Lord in prayer.” (1) Praying [...] April 8 – Our Lady of Basella (Italy, 1356) A rosary is like a portable chapel Edward Sri is Professor of Theology and Sacred Scripture at the Auguste Institute in Denver, Colorado, USA. This institute [...] Wonder of Heaven and Earth (1), Edward Sri first notes that Catholics pray with Mary and not Mary herself. He makes this beautiful simile: “A rosary is like a portable chapel we can keep in our pocket