Matthew 1:25 (“He had no relations with her until she bore a son, and he named him Jesus”) and Matthew 13:55 (“Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Are not his sisters

giving him birth. A new Feast was instituted, under the name of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin. This Feast, which sometimes goes under the name of Our Lady of O , or the Feast of O, on account of the

go to Nagapattinam and inform a Catholic gentleman that she desired to have a chapel built in her name at Vailankanni. Then she graciously bade him to stand up and he realized he was no longer lame. On [...] their knees and besought Mary, Star of the Sea, to save them. They vowed to build a church in her name wherever they could land safely on shore. Instantly, the sea became calm and the waves fell. Their

patroness of their local shrine. · In Vilna, the "Czestochowa" of Lithuania, Mary is known under the name of Our Lady the Gate of Dawn. Marie de Nazareth Website

- Our Lady of the Place (Rome, 1250) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (II) It would be impossible to name all the many saints who discovered in the Rosary a genuine path to growth in holiness. We need but

nothing to envy them for, because I have a Mother, a real one, the one I had been lacking. My Mother’s name is Mary, God said. Her heart is absolutely pure and full of grace, She is a virgin and her body is

and tender love. I entered the Convent of the Visitation, because I was attracted to the very sweet name of Mary. I believed that what I sought was there.

the Queen of Peace, I met Paul, who is my husband today. We are the happy parents of a little boy named Karol. I believe that Mary comes especially for families in Medjugorje: when you think of it, all

Mother and Virgin, because of the One who in the holy Gospel is called Blessed and who comes in the name of the Lord... We salute you, who have contained in your virginal womb that which the heavens cannot

to love and venerate Mary. In the evening, I often walked to my paternal grandmother’s house. Her name was Herminia. We always prayed the rosary as we walked. I was a curious and distracted little boy