of Our Lady of Boulogne (1943) It’s up to the Virgin Mary to take care of it Charles Péguy (1873-1914), a French writer and mystic, was an atheist and a fervent socialist before converting to Catholicism [...] m. He prayed until the end of his life for the conversion of his wife, and died in battle during the WWI. A year later, his wife asked to be baptized. In June 1912, after his son Pierre became seriously
Sweden (d. 1373) How a medal of Mary saved a soldier during WWII It was on the night of November 10, 1939. I had been sent to reconnoiter the position of the German troops, and with three other soldiers made [...] It was around midnight. One of the men carried an electrical system. He walked ahead of me, moving and stopping, depending on the slightest sounds he heard. From time to time a burst of machine-gun fire [...] Our Lady of Victories! I looked at my wrist. My medal was no longer there. It had fallen at my feet and was in fact the one I had picked up! The most surprising thing is that the chain was still intact.
Lady of the Grotto (Lamego, Portugal) Like Mary, the Docile Handmaid of the Divine Word This attitude of religious listening is the typical attitude of Mary Most Holy exactly as shown in the emblematic [...] itself, in the constitution "Dei Verbum" (No. 1). Let us pray that, like Mary, the Church may be a docile handmaid of the Divine Word and proclaim it always with firm confidence so that "the whole world, hearing [...] hearing, will believe in the proclamation of salvation; in believing will hope, and in hoping will love" (ibid.).
Lady of the Grotto (Lamego, Portugal) Like Mary, the Docile Handmaid of the Divine Word This attitude of religious listening is the typical attitude of Mary Most Holy exactly as shown in the emblematic [...] itself, in the constitution "Dei Verbum" (No. 1). Let us pray that, like Mary, the Church may be a docile handmaid of the Divine Word and proclaim it always with firm confidence so that "the whole world, hearing [...] hearing, will believe in the proclamation of salvation; in believing will hope, and in hoping will love" (ibid.).
Nativity of Mary), I placed my episcopate under her protection on that same date, received an appointment to Arezzo on November 21st (feast of the Presentation at the Temple and the Purification of Mary), then [...] his episcopate "is under Mary’s protection." His remark came after the Mass in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination: "I express my gratitude to Mary because I was consecrated [...] to Perugia on July 16th (feast of Our Lady of Carmel); and today, I am celebrating this anniversary on the feast of the Virgin of Mercy." "Mary taught me," the Archbishop of Perugia added, "what she said
their faith, and asked to see an image of the Virgin. Angels brought them a black wooden statue, representing the Mother of Jesus. The following night, a fascinated Ismeria released the knights and escaped [...] August 24 – Dedication of the shrine of Our Lady of Benoîte Vaux (1138) The Virgin Mary answers the wish of the Sultan's daughter At the beginning of the 12th century, three Christian knights of the order [...] order of Saint John of Jerusalem left France for the crusade. They were captured and brought to Cairo, where the sultan attempted to convert them to Islam. Since they refused, the sultan sent his daughter
but kept its large size. Intrigued, the people decided to dig up the ground and the veil was discovered. Despite the humidity and a very prolonged stay in the earth, the relic was in a perfect state of c [...] Lady of Tichwin (Russia) - Publication of Fatima’s Third Secret (2000) A fragment of the Holy Veil of Mary preserved in Aveyron, France For at least 500 years, Coupiac, a commune of Aveyron, France, has kept [...] it after the war, but they died before the war ended. Therefore, the hiding place remained secret and the relic was forgotten. Tradition has it that a bull from the nearby village continually scraped the
the Virgin Mary The 1968 Marian apparitions in Zeitoun, a northern suburb of Cairo the Holy Family went through during the Flight to Egypt, are by far the most widely observed apparitions of Mary. Most people [...] Egypt, on the roofs of the cathedral, for several months. I went there twice, in January and February of 2001 and did not personally see the Virgin but can attest that it wasn’t a collective hallucination [...] well-known in some circles. The Virgin appeared at night in Zeitoun for a whole year, in a posture and dress reminiscent of the 19 th -century Rue du Bac apparitions in Paris, France – over the dome of
Experienced by Mary (II) There was also the invisible presence of Saint Joseph, who shared everything with Mary. Mary said with Jesus, in a low voice: "I am thirsty." She was thirsty with Him, and not only that [...] that atrocious, physical thirst in his bruised body, drained of blood and burning with fever. Mary certainly tried to relieve that thirst. But how strongly she must have felt with Jesus that spiritual [...] spiritual thirst that thirst for all of us who He wanted to save by His death. What Jesus went through, Mary went through with him. In her motherhood that knew its most intense fullness, she brought her children
Blessed Virgin’s belt, a gift from the Empress of Constantinople, as a treasured possession, and he wore a medal of Mary on a golden chain around his neck. In his old age, he asked to be buried with a statue [...] January 28 - Our Lady of the People (Italy, 1771) - Saint Charlemagne Charlemagne, Mary’s Son (I) The great Emperor Charlemagne was anointed in the Basilica of Aachen, which he had previously dedicated [...] Assumption on the whole of the Frankish Empire. The reign of Charlemagne marked the end of feudality and the beginning of the unification of Europe, born at the same time as Christendom, under the protection
