district of Turin, Italy. Every week, the Company met to pray and take stock of the work done or accomplished... (1) Don Bosco is the founder of the Salesian religious family, at the service of youth education [...] March 9 – Our Lady of Miracles (Treviso, Italy, 1510) – Death of Saint Dominic Savio (Italy, 1842 - 1857) An unlimited trust in Mary Having cherished the Blessed Virgin from an early age and oriented his [...] December 8, 1856. The goal was to do everything with an unlimited trust in Mary, to help Don Bosco and his associates keep up the true spirit of the house, and to welcome newcomers. Each companion was thus
inaugurates the economy of salvation and the entry of the Word of God into human history: "This day is the prelude to universal joy. On this day the winds of salvation have begun to blow" (Byzantine Liturgy) [...] called "the House of Anne" near the pool of Bethsaida. A church was later built near this house and dedicated on September 8: the Basilica of the Nativity of Mary, renamed the Church of St. Anne in the 12th [...] The anniversary of this dedication was commemorated every year. The feast spread to Constantinople in the 5th century and then to the West. Later, the feast of Mary's conception, set to nine months earlier
September 24 - Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham A Pro-Life Feast In the year 2000, the Holy Father John Paul II decreed that the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, mediaeval patroness of England, and in modern [...] in 2001. The feast of the Annunciation is increasingly celebrated as a pro-life feast, to call attention to the unborn; Our Lady of Walsingham's feast asks us to contemplate the joy of the Incarnation in [...] modern time patroness of all English-speaking peoples, was to be celebrated on September 24th instead of March 25th. The feast of Our Lady of Walsingham was celebrated for the first time on the new date
Mary’s wish to employ her goodness and providence to console the Spouse of Christ, the Church, through her long-sustained efforts in this enterprise, as well as to bring to full perfection the boon of unity [...] January 25 - Our Lady of Good Travel (India, 1599) - Conversion of Saint Paul Mary, the Mother, will reconcile her children The cause of unity is a Marian cause. It is the Mother who will reconcile her [...] unity among the members of the Christian family, which is the illustrious fruit of her motherhood? In Mary, God has given us the most zealous guardian of Christian unity. Pope Leo XIII (1878 - 1903) Adiutricem
September 19 - Our Lady of Reconciliation of La Salette (France, 1846) I’m Sending Out an SOS I’m sending out an SOS. I’m calling all true disciples of the Living God who reigns in Heaven. I’m calling [...] imitators of Christ made man, the only and true Savior of mankind. I’m calling all my children, all those who are truly devout, all those who have abandoned themselves to me so that I may lead them to my divine [...] those that I carry in my arms, so to speak, those who have lived in my spirit. Finally, I’m calling all the Apostles of the end of time, all the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, who have lived in contempt
May 1 – Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker – Our Lady of Laus (France, 1664) The world's breath broke against Joseph Mary says: “I, whom the Eternal had destined to be the Queen of his angels, had two angels [...] side continually, with flashes of light and heavenly perfume, and my angelic consort, whose flesh, not darkened by the desire of blood, lived close to mine-like that of two lilies blossoming in the same [...] as if she were assigned to the service of the altar, beyond the Holy of Holies, where the glory of the Eternal God was shining." From Maria Valtorta’s 1944 Notebook (January 11)
June 8 – Our Lady of Wisdom (France) – Death of Father Tardif (d. 1999) In Medjugorje: my greatest experience with the Virgin Mary I had my greatest experience in regard to the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje [...] threat of a police repression, which would have brought an explosion of violence, and social peace was maintained. I invoked the Holy Spirit by the name of Mary and, thanks to her, the peril of a bloody [...] role of Mary in the history of salvation, and in my own salvation, have found an answer thanks to her intervention. My love for Mary grew even more when I participated in a march in Soure, Brazil, to defend
September 8 – Nativity of the Virgin Mary – Our Lady of the Kneeling Woman (France, 1550) An apparition near Valence, France, commemorated on September 8th The shrine of Our Lady of Fresneau, in Marsanne [...] under the name of "Our Lady of Consolation." The love of the population of Marsanne for the Virgin Mary found a new impetus when the Virgin intervened to help a young girl, the daughter of an old stone cutter [...] result of the miracle, but its popularity reached a new level when Pope Pius IX granted permission for the crowning of Our Lady of Fresneau in 1855, a petition supported by St John Vianney, the Curé of Ars
September 19 - Our Lady of Reconciliation of La Salette (France, 1846) I’m Sending Out an SOS I'm sending out an SOS. I'm calling all true disciples of the Living God who reigns in Heaven. I'm calling [...] imitators of Christ made man, the only and true Savior of mankind. I'm calling all my children, all those who are truly devout, all those who have abandoned themselves to me so that I may lead them to my divine [...] those that I carry in my arms, so to speak, those who have lived in my spirit. Finally, I'm calling all the Apostles of the end of time, all the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, who have lived in contempt
hope might be strengthened in the world to come.” “We will rely on the intercession of Our Lady, under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who we know first appeared to an indigenous person, that being Saint [...] not long after the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City in 1531. “Some indigenous peoples of North America embraced the Catholic faith long before many of our ancestors set foot on these shores [...] made up of 23 small shrines, 20 of them for the different mysteries of the Rosary that will imitate the example of Saint Kateri’s life and take advantage of the natural beauty that God offers to us. Bishop
