Pio in 2002 Prayer to Our Lady of Grace Saint Pio of Pietrelcina presented himself to everyone - priests, men and women, religious and lay people - as a credible witness to Christ and his Gospel. May his
life? In Japan, Christian communities were able to keep their faith intact despite the absence of priests for two centuries, thanks in part to the Rosary. In 1614, the Dominican missionaries to Japan were [...] that comes from Jesus. Faith is a light shining in the darkness for the sick and the dying. As a priest, I am always amazed by the pedagogical and spiritual power of the Rosary in times of illness and
a divorce. To save their marriage, Wolfgang decided to pay a visit to Father Jakob Rem, a Jesuit priest who lived at the monastery and university of Ingolstadt, located seventy kilometers north of Augsburg [...] Over a period of 28 days, Wolfgang visited Father Rem four times and received advice from the holy priest, who was honored for his wisdom, piety and extraordinary intelligence. In fact, Father Rem was believed
faithful, remained without priests and kept the faith through devotion to Mary; between 1839 and 1846, 6,000 Catholics died as martyrs, among them the first Korean native priest; in 1866, two bishops, 7
little child on her lap. Everyone declared the discovery a true miracle. They informed the local priest, Fr. Rimaud, who happily brought the miraculous statue to his church in Saint-Christo. The people [...] people came in great numbers from all parts of the region to venerate it. That very night, the priest locked the door of the empty church, but the next day there was a great commotion: the statue was gone,
Naples in southern Italy. Two Dominican priests who were in the city, Fr. Gassiti and Fr. Pignataro, were both authorized by the bishop to perform exorcisms. The priests asked the demon that was possessing
1936, he found himself face to face with Bishop Fulton Sheen. He started a heated debate with the priest, when suddenly Sheen retorted, "And now let's talk a little about the Blessed Virgin!" This long [...] find my hand in the pocket of my jacket touching the beads of my Rosary!" Actually, the words of the priest had established the contact of a mysterious telepathy with the State of Indiana and New York. In
them that the conflict would soon come to an end. After the children and villagers prayed with their priest at the site of her appearance, the Prussian troops left the village, and one week later, the war [...] small village, inhabited by simple and hardworking country folk, who were guided by their parish priest Abbé Michel Guérin. The Barbadette family consisted of father César, his wife, Victoire, with their [...] golden crown. [...] The adults in the crowd, which had now grown to about sixty people including the priest, could still see nothing and began to say the rosary, as the children exclaimed that something new
a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'.” “Other bishops, priests, and religious men and women were going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big [...] killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way the bishops, priests, and religious and various lay people of different ranks and positions died one after another. Beneath
Mother Mary to stand at the door of my heart... Between 1933 and 1938, Father Faure, then parish priest of Châteauneuf-de-Galaure (a small town in France), faithfully recounted in small diaries the words [...] for Eucharistic communion by praying the Rosary. Many pray with her on Wednesday evenings when the priest usually brings her Communion. For Marthe, this is not an abstract exercise, but a real preparation—in
