of God Maria Esperanza. In the United States, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young immigrant woman named Adele Brise, in Champion, Wisconsin in 1859. Our Lady called her to gather the children of the land

became a place of pilgrimage. Benedictine monks came to serve the shrine and gave it the beautiful name of Valfleury in memory of the discovery of the statue of the Virgin Mary. After an interruption due

- 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

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.

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

period: "I saw a beautiful lady with a veil full of light, who looked at me with a smile and told me her name was Mary. As I had given up all religious practice, I didn't think of the Blessed Virgin at all. So [...] waking up, Mylène asked about her benefactress, and was surprised to hear that there was no doctor named Mary. In her hospital room, the young woman became painfully aware of her physical condition. One

Virgin also appeared each year in the church of the Al-Maghti monastery, known by the Ethiopians by the name of Dabra Metmaq, located close to Lake Bouroullos and north of Bilqas in the Eastern Delta, the 21st

each other to give her is nothing compared to what she has received interiorly from her Creator, namely, a glory unknown to insignificant creatures like us, who cannot penetrate into the secrets of the

spotless purity, Pray for us. St Angela, who by thy love for holy purity, didst merit to receive thy name, Pray for us. St Angela, who from childhood found thy delight in solitude, Pray for us. St Angela

Peace—that I met John, who is my husband today! We are the happy parents of a little boy called Karol (named after Saint John Paul II). I believe Mary visits Medjugorje especially for families. After all, all