the first of the seven to whom the Book of Revelation is addressed. Interesting still is the fact that in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the Council of Ephesus was held. As the gods of Athens were [...] April 14 - Our Lady of Guam (1825) Mary and Diana (II) A mob was quickly organized which ran over those large stones heading for the amphitheater. Paul had never said anything against Diana. On the contrary [...] er, shouting for the death of Paul, the town clerk told the people that he had not mentioned Diana by name. For two hours the crowd in the arena shouted praises to Diana of the Ephesians until it reverberated
April 15 - Our Lady of Keiff (Russia, 1010) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (I) Outstanding among the saints is Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. In the Gospel of Luke we find her engaged [...] service of neighbor--only then does goodness enter the world. Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. She is lowly: her only desire is to be the handmaid of the Lord [...] engaged in a service of charity to her cousin Elizabeth, with whom she remained for "about three months" (Lk 1:56) so as to assist her in the final phase of her pregnancy. Magnificat anima mea Dominum, she said
have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise. 9)I shall deliver from Purgatory [...] devoted to the Rosary. 10)The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. 11)You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. 12)All those who propagate the [...] April 6 - Our Lady of the Conception (Douai, France) Mary's 15 Promises to Those Who Recite the Holy Rosary 1)Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive special graces
to you at the hour of our death. Amen. As the foster Father of the Son of God, chaste Spouse of the Virgin Mary, and Patron of the universal Church, Joseph was placed alongside Mary like the seraph watching [...] "yes" at the Incarnation, in the spirit of Psalm 39, and Mary said "yes" at the Incarnation on behalf of all humanity, but Joseph also said "yes" to be the head of the Holy Family. Joseph was great, righteous [...] are you among all men, and blessed is the fruit of your Virginal Spouse, Jesus. Holy Joseph, foster Father of the Son of God, pray for us, watch over our family, health and work, until our last day, and
lifted her up and said, "I am the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ who died on the Cross for the salvation of mankind. I ask you on my behalf to go to the people of Vicenza and ask them to build a church [...] location of the shrine's main altar. "All those who visit the church with devotion," she added, "on the occasion of my feast days and on the first Sunday of each month will receive the gift of abundant [...] March 07 - Apparition of the Madonna Del Monte Berico (Italy, 1426) Mary Stopped the Plague in Monte Berico (I) A precious manuscript, kept in the Bertoliana Vicenza Library of Veneto (#1430), tells in
that disease. " The busy shrine of Our Lady of Berico has now become one of largest shrines dedicated to Mary in Europe. "On the first Sunday of the month we have an average of twenty-two thousand confessions [...] and she was believed this time: the city officials, the Council of One Hundred and the Council of Five Hundred gathered in the Great Hall of Reason, and decided to build the church on Monte Berico in as [...] out of a rock in the place where the shrine would be built, and this is exactly what happened. During the construction work, "a marvellous and incredible source of water flowed... to the point of flooding
stock of the present time as a phase of this Universal History: "The whole Church, then, looks to Mary. Thanks to the countless Marian shrines dotting the nations of the continent, devotion to Mary is very [...] resolutely turn to Mary to overcome the hardships she faced at the beginning of the new millennium. Therefore, far from being an isolated act, entrustment to Mary plunges us into the history of Salvation and [...] peoples of Europe. Church of Europe! Continue to contemplate Mary, in the knowledge that she is "maternally present and sharing in the many complicated problems which today beset the lives of individuals
March 10 - Our Lady of Miracles (Bari, Italy, 1576) Mary's and Joseph's Silence Joseph shared Mary's silence, just as he shared her secret; he to whom the angel had told such great things, and who had [...] seen the miracle of the virginal birth. Neither one of them spoke about what they saw every day in their home nor did they draw any benefit from such wonders. As humble as she was wise, Mary let herself be [...] be seen as an ordinary mother and her Son as the result of a normal marriage. The great things that God operates in His creatures naturally inspire silence, inner rapture, something divine that suppresses
stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature. Adorned from the first instant of her conception with the radiance of an entirely unique holiness, the Virgin of Nazareth [...] angel messenger as "full of grace", and to the heavenly messenger she replies, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word." Thus Mary, a daughter of Adam, consenting to the [...] Our Lady of Angels (Toulouse, France) - 14th Apparition in Lourdes Mary's Unique Holiness It is no wonder therefore that the usage prevailed among the Fathers whereby they called the mother of God entirely
March 06 - Our Lady of Nazareth (Pierre Noire, Portugal, 1150) O Mary, O My Sweet Mother O Mary, O my sweet Mother, obtain for me from Heaven, on this beautiful day, complete abandonment, perfect abandonment [...] abandonment, abandonment full of love for Love. May I, through you, with you, in you, Blessed Virgin, love, pray, plead and suffer with always more love. May my life be nothing more that a loving "yes" (.
