anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Aparecida, patroness of Brazil, at the national shrine of Aparecida, in the State of São Paulo. In 1717, after having prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception [...] October 12 – Our Lady of El Pilar (Spain) – Our Lady of Aparecida, patronness of Brazil The largest Marian shrine in the world From October 10-12, 2017, Brazilian Catholics celebrated the 300 th anniversary [...] 1929, Our Lady of Aparecida was proclaimed "Queen of Brazil" and the official patron saint of the country by Pope Pius XI. Her feast is celebrated on October 12th. In 1984, the Bishops' Conference of Brazil
– Feast of Our Lady of the Porziuncola, “Our Lady of the Angels” (Italy) The day Mary arrived, a cease-fire was declared In his book The Fatima Century: How the Pilgrim Virgin is Changing Our Generation [...] ry stories of graces received from God through Our Lady, in places where the famous pilgrim Virgin of Fatima has traveled in the last seventy years. For example, in the northwest region of India terrible [...] in 1947. This was not a Christian conflict, but nevertheless a group of the Blue Army of Mary brought a pilgrim statue of Fatima to that country. The very day it arrived, a cease-fire was declared! Was
was asked to conduct her funeral, something that I accepted to do from the bottom of my heart. On the day of the funeral a taxi driver came to pick me up at the friary as scheduled. On our way to the funeral [...] April 27 - Our Lady of Montserrat (Spain) - Our Lady of Vilnius (Lithuania) "I'm so happy, now I can receive Holy Communion..." After fighting her failing health condition my dear, elderly auntie passed [...] Mary—the Mother of God and Our Mother—brings us back to Jesus through her Rosary! She is truly the Mother of Reconciliation! Adapted from a text by Father Mario Attard, OFM Cap., a reader of A Moment with
the aim is to "entrust our country - which is currently experiencing one of the most serious societal crises in its history - to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and implore her to come to the aid of its people [...] December 6 - Our Lady of Sées (France) - Our Lady of the Vow (Siena, Italy) "Right now, the only thing we have left is prayer" Since January 2022, the "France Prays" (La France prie) project has been growing [...] almost anywhere, usually on Wednesdays at 6pm, or at other times of the week. They are held outside in order to invite the passers-by to join in. It all started with an appeal from a French expatriate in
April 27 - Our Lady of Montserrat (Spain) - Our Lady of Vilnius (Lithuania) In these difficult times, let us remember God's promise at the Annunciation! At the end of March, Balanga Bishop Ruperto C. Santos [...] mother of the Savior. Salvation has come. God is faithful to His promise to save the fallen humanity,” said “In these difficult and dangerous times, trust that there will be good news to come, our own a [...] restored to sound health. We will be safe again. The world will be healed,” Santos said. The bishop urged Catholics to stay strong and firm in their faith and to continue to do good amid the spread of the corona
December 6 – Our Lady of Sées (France) – Our Lady of the Vow (Siena, Italy) A little boy’s edifying gesture A family from the Aosta Valley in Italy used to go to Rome every year for the Christmas holidays [...] priest came to bless our mountain chalet. Andrew, of course, led him immediately to his Baby Jesus and both of them sang the Ave Maria. Now this priest is a family friend. Through him we found our way back [...] came back to see us, and said, "Do you know that Andrew’s Baby Jesus changed all of us? Every evening Andrew wants the whole family to meet in his room around the Baby Jesus to sing the Ave Maria of Lourdes
right then that “we began to pray to Jesus and Our Lady of Fatima, to whom we have a great devotion… The next day we called the Carmelite convent of Campo Mouro to ask the sisters to pray for the boy,” he [...] July 9 – Our Lady of Itati (Argentina) – Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Colombia) No symptoms or after-effects after a 20-feet fall! The Brazilian parents of the boy whose miraculous healing led to Saturday’s [...] canonization of two of the Fatima children spoke recently of what happened. João Batista and his wife Lucila Yurie spoke amidst tears at the Fatima Shrine during a press conference held in advance of the pope’s
Consuls and the clergy of Cotignac to build a chapel here, dedicated to Our Lady of Graces, and to come in procession to receive the graces that I want to grant." It was decided to erect a chapel there. [...] August 10 – Our Lady of Graces (Cotignac, France, 1519) – Our Lady of Thanks “I am the Virgin Mary” On August 10, 1519, a woodcutter named Jean (John) de la Baume climbed Mount Verdaille (France), where [...] appeared to him, with the Child Jesus, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Catherine the martyr and the archangel Saint Michael. Our Lady was standing with her feet resting on a crescent moon. She said to Jean:
and our suffering, offering our pain out of love. At Beauraing Mary showed her Heart of gold: she appeared in a school courtyard, the Institute of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, a school dedicated to the [...] what is essential, to the heart of our faith, and to put ourselves back into the Heart of God. Father Joël Rochette, Vicar General of the Diocese of Namur and Rector of the Beauraing Shrine Excerpt from an [...] Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. Perhaps through these titles she invites us to rediscover a somewhat hidden dimension of our lives? We are from this earth of course, and we are aware of all its
July 9 – Our Lady of Itali (Argentina)- Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Colombia) "Christ’s victory will come through Mary" Sometimes it is easier to turn to Mary than to Jesus. Her motherly figure is less [...] Peter, he visited all the great Marian shrines of the world. After the attack on his life in May 1981, John Paul II showed a special devotion to Our Lady of Fatima who, he told the French writer André Frossard [...] one of the surest paths to Jesus, and expressed their most affectionate, poetic and inspiring words for her. Mary remained the Polish pope's ally throughout his life. Once elected to the throne of Peter
