Jesus through Mary. And that her Sacred Heart and His will protect and sustain us through anything. The statue is a symbol. Amid the smoldering ruins that hours earlier had been an inferno, Mary remained. [...] April 27 – Our Lady of Montserrat (Spain) – Our Lady of Vilnius (Lithuania) A statue of Mary still standing after the tragic wildfire in Colorado On Dec. 30, a fast-moving wildfire destroyed approximately [...] of Louisville. When the couple returned to what was left of their home, they found their statue of Mary still standing. Tom Greany wrote the following reflection on what they have been through the last

to respond to the call of our Mother, the Virgin Mary, who never ceases to encourage us to pray the rosary. St. Louis de Montfort wrote: "The Hail Mary well said, with devotion and modesty, is, according [...] with the statue of Mary, singing and praying the rosary, offering flowers and food to the soldiers. The power of the people was the power of Mary, and the victory was the victory of Mary. Thierry Fourchaud [...] flight, and the hammer that crushes him." We rarely associate devotion to Mary with the social or political dimension of life, yet Mary's words in the Magnificat point to a reversal of the social order in favor

e, 473) When Mary asked for a dead child to be baptized In Bollezeele (France), the Shrine of Our Lady of the Visitation has a long history, going back to an apparition of the Virgin Mary on the bank of [...] to Our Lady of Bollezeele in prayer, and obtained an end to the plague. In the 17 th century, Queen Mary Modena, the wife of James II, King of England, having learned that a large number of sterile women [...] 1859, the entire population of Bollezeele experienced the protection of the Virgin, as a terrible hail storm ravaged the whole region, sparing only their town. Bollezeele

tell him to solicit the Blessed Virgin. Every morning, go pray to the Blessed Virgin, say a little Hail Mary, and ask her to help you to know her Son. I would tell him to read a passage from the Gospel, and [...] , without knowing that the town has a renowned religious shrine, since he had never heard of God, Mary or Jesus before. On the set of KTO (a French Catholic TV channel) he openly spoke about his conversion

January 11 – Our Lady of Bessières (France) Mary sends a doctor to a dying child The famous French doctor Louis Granpas, known for his great talent and benevolence towards the poor, lived in a suburb of [...] poor. One Sunday night, he was coming home from a medical conference. Carrying a heavy trunk, he hailed a cab and gave the driver his address. The taxi driver, with a grim expression and Herculean strength

prayer during Lauds in front of the statue of the Black Madonna in Einsiedeln, on June 15, 1984: "Hail Mary, Our Lady of Einsiedeln! ... I commend you today, Holy Mother of God, this country, Switzerland [...] of Vespers and a procession to the Chapel of Graces with the following words: "We salute you, Holy Mary, Our Lady of Einsiedeln! In you God has offered us the original face of the Church and of true humanity

occasions: First, it was revealed by the Archangel Gabriel, who, when addressing Mary, said to her, "Hail Mary" or "Rejoice O Mary," because in Greek the greeting is rendered by the expression Kairé = rejoice [...] to say that Mary was very lucky? Of course not! The Angel's words carry the full meaning of "filled with grace." Adapted from an article by Hervé Marie Catta* 1,000 Questions *Hervé Marie Catta (b. 1939) [...] is in conformity with Scripture. Of course it was not Mary’s own doing! It was a gift of God. "The Mighty One has done great things for me," Mary proclaims in her song of praise, known as the ‘Magnificat’

Kristin, leader of this prayer effort and a mother of seven, business executive, and blogger at One Hail Mary at a Time , about how this practice came to be and where she sees it heading in the future. How

Virgin Mary in Ephesus...Strangely, this fact stayed with me, and when I returned home, I looked up sites of Marian apparitions. I knew about Fatima and Lourdes, but I discovered that the Virgin Mary had [...] triggered a sort of depression. One day in August 2013, I went out in my backyard and prayed a Hail Mary. Suddenly, I felt like I was struck by Love... I was dizzy with joy, began to cry, and continued [...] Franciscans - in 2018, I decided to prepare myself to become a Third Order Franciscan. Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth on November 17, 2021

death of Pope Saint John Paul II (2005) Saint Pope John Paul II’s devotion to Mary Pope John Paul II’s devotion to Holy Mary cannot be understood without reference to his beloved Poland, a country distinguished [...] the book “The Treatise on Perfect Devotion to the Most Holy Virgin Mary” by St. Louis Grignion de Montfort. Of how his devotion to Mary grew in maturity, the Holy Father writes in “Crossing the Threshold [...] from a distance of less than twenty feet. In great pain, the Holy Father kept repeating, “Mary, my Mother! Mary, my Mother!” Exactly one year after, the Pope made a pilgrimage to Fatima to Publicly thank