and soul into the Heavenly Kingdom. She is both hidden within God and offered to all of us. Mary is near us in the glory of her Assumption. She is forever the one in whom the Holy Spirit has fashioned the

undertook in 1255 the construction of a monastery in the forest of Rouvray (current Bois de Boulogne), near Paris. The first stone was laid on June 10, 1256 by King Saint Louis (Louis IX). It was the Poor Clare

2004. The day after their wedding, Charles and Zita went on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Mariazell, near the Austrian Styrian Alps, to consecrate their union to the Virgin Mary. A year later their first

1935) frequently shares his attachment to the Virgin Mary. Can she be his only great love? With nearly 90 films to his credit, Alain Delon remains a mythical figure of French cinema. In May 2019, he received

Saint Padre Pio The Virgin attracts many souls in Slovakia Thousands of believers came to Marian Hill near Levoča (Prešov Region), where one the biggest and oldest pilgrimages in Slovakia culminated on July

pastoral tour for a few days when his car was blocked by a group of secessionist rebels (amba-boys), near the village of Belo-Njikwe. Bishop Esua tried to explain to the separatists that he had to return

faithful of the Almaty diocese, in Kazakhstan were still without a priest. They began to build a church near Oziorno—a town whose name means “of the lake.” When a priest was sent there (he is the current bishop

an icon of the Mother of God—or the Madonna and Child—floated straight to the shore of Mount Athos near the monastery of Iviron (Greece). It depicted the Virgin Mary holding up the Child Jesus in majesty

visited the most famous and oldest Marian shrine in Southern Germany: Our Lady of Altötting in Bavaria, near the Austrian border, which dates back to the Carolingian era, at the time of the holy bishop Rupert

invited a young woman from the congregation, whom I had never seen before, to be our reader. We were near the altar, standing at the pulpit, when I inexplicably fell down the stairs in front of some young