East and West. He himself traced the boundaries of the new city, and ordered the master builder, Euphrata, to spare no expense in endowing it with monuments and public roads surpassing in glory and magnificence [...] the city was founded on November 8, 324, Byzantium was named Constantinople and New Rome, and was later dedicated to the Mother of God. The Mary of Nazareth team [...] Cross, and took advantage of a military campaign against the barbarians in Pannonia (present-day Hungary) to invade Italy in 322. The victorious Constantine, triumphant in the name of Christ and the Truth

the prayer of the poor and the small, the sick and the suffering, par excellence. Yes, always and everywhere; not only in space, but also in time. The latitudes of the planet and longitudes of history [...] testament? The Hail Mary is a synthesis of two first names: Mary and Jesus. [...] crisscross. The Hail Mary has moistened the lips of millions of all ages, races and nations. How many children learned it as their first prayer? How many of the dying whispered it as their ultimate testament

of the figure of Mary: " Who is Mary? A teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘ narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a Lady “unapproachable” and impossible to imitate [...] at the feet of the statue of Mary, in the Chapel of the apparitions. This 19 th apostolic journey is the first one to Portugal. The Pope said it was " a pilgrimage of hope and peace. " During this Marian [...] a sweet and caring mother … who gave a human face to the Son of the Eternal Father. " When people pray the Rosary, " the Gospel enters anew into the life of individuals, families, peoples and the entire

recall the mysteries of our salvation in succession, and the subject of meditation is mingled and, as it were, interlaced with the Angelic salutation and with the prayer addressed to God, the Father of Our [...] that men should return to Christ, who "is the way, the truth, and the life," by frequent meditation on the salvation obtained for Us by Him, and should seek the intercession with God of that Virgin, to whom [...] need of divine help is as great today as when the great Dominic introduced the use of the Rosary of Mary as a balm for the wounds of his contemporaries. That great saint indeed, divinely enlightened, perceived

Mother ." And Pius XI in the conclusion of the encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor said: " Christ, the only mediator between God and men, chose to associate his Mother as the advocate of sinners and as the [...] earth all the graces necessary to convert and persevere in doing good. This is why the devotion to the Sacred Heart and the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary cannot be dissociated. Fatima fulfils [...] be affirmed that, by the will of God, Mary is the intermediary through whom is distributed unto us this immense treasure of mercies gathered by God, for mercy and truth were created by Jesus Christ. Thus

consecrated by Him, with His most Holy Beloved Son and the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. On you descended and still remains all the fullness of grace and every good. Hail, His Palace. Hail His Tabernacle [...] possible to the evangelical life in imitation of Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary. He recommended to his brothers to keep the Church of St Mary of the Angels, known as "the Porziuncola," as the Mother House of the [...] recite the Rosary. Saint Francis composed prayers to Mary, the protectress of the Franciscan Order, such as this one: Hail, holy Lady, most holy Queen, Mary, Mother of God, ever Virgin. You were chosen by the

between the pillar of Mary, Help of Christians, and the pillar of the Eucharist, the Church would survive. He wrote, “Only two things can save us in such a grave hour: devotion to Mary and frequent Communion [...] best to use these two means and have others use them everywhere.” Below is a prayer attributed to St John Bosco directed to Mary, Help of Christians that reflects this belief and places a person within the [...] the powerful protection of the Virgin Mary against all evil forces acting in the world. O Mary, powerful Virgin, you are the mighty and powerful protector of the Church; you are the marvelous help of C

with them their daily bread … And that, O my Son, I have given to You as well. Marie Noël (1883-1967), French poetess Excerpt from the poem Lullaby of the Mother God Marie de Nazareth [...] as a fragile babe in my arms, my Child so warm against my beating heart, I adore Him in my hands, and gently rock Him, filled with awe the Wonder, O God, that You gave me. I had no son, O my God, ... But

recorded about twenty apparitions of the Virgin Mary in her Diary, and about thirty visions of Christ, the angels and departed souls. Here is what the Virgin Mary told her on March 25, 1936: “Then I saw the [...] souls on that terrible day. Fear nothing. Be faithful to the end.” (Diary, 635) And a few months later: “I saw Her, so lovely and so beautiful that I have no words to express even a small part of this beauty [...] around Her waist. Her cloak was also blue, and there was a crown on Her head. Marvelous light streamed forth from Her whole figure. I am the Queen of heaven and earth, but especially the Mother of your

sadness or the abyss of despair, think of Mary. In dangers, in anguish, in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let her name be even on your lips, ever in your heart; and the better to obtain the help of her [...] not grow weary; favored by her, you reach the goal. And thus will you experience in yourself how good this saying is: ‘And the Virgin's name was Mary.’" Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Excerpt from the second [...] of tribulation, look to the star: Call upon Mary! If you are tossed by the waves of pride or ambition, detraction or envy, look to the star, call upon Mary. If anger or avarice or the desires of the flesh