1673. Pilgrims arrived in great numbers from all over the region, and the shrine was expanded with a chapel and a cloister. During the French Revolution, the revolutionary committee intended to demolish the [...] France. Devotion to Our Lady of Alet began in the 12th century following an apparition of the Virgin Mary to a farmer named Raymond. The first chapel was visited by Saint Dominic, the famous founder of the Order [...] it. The chapel was eventually restored in the 19th century with the addition of the entrance porch. Notre-Dame d'Alet is now classified as a historical monument, and the visitors who come to pray for the

Jesus of his own Mother? The Lord, as Scripture says, was moved with great compassion when He saw this widow coming out from the city gate with her son on the funeral bier. Perhaps, in His knowledge of His [...] His own purpose, He thought of His own Mother, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. There would come a day in his own life when His Mother, bereft of her protector, Joseph, would come forth from the Gate [...] horrible loss is met by God with such remarkable miracles. This is because, as Jesus said, His “Kingdom is not of this world.” But where there is not always the result for a miracle on the outside, there

head, like a persistent thought. So I went to take a rosary from the collection hanging in my room, which I never used. I chose one, put it next to my bed, and that evening I began to pray with it. Another [...] website of the Perpetual Rosary. I read the testimonial of a certain Catherine, who received the vision of the protective rosary from the Virgin Mary on September 21, 2020... which happens to be my birthday [...] praying the Perpetual Rosary for the World at least every night, with my own little rosary. This very simple and perfect prayer says it with few words. Through its purity and its source, may it preserve us

lies in the Shrine of Our Lady of Rocamadour, a complex of religious structures centered around a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary and the tomb of a saint from long ago. Tourists come to Rocamadour [...] the site became a place of pilgrimage. Some claim the town was named for the hermit, a "lover of rock" ( roc amator ). Zaccheus is said to have brought a statue of the Black Madonna with him to Rocamadour [...] Rocamadour, about 100 miles north of Toulouse, is a popular destination for pilgrims and tourists alike. This spectacular natural and religious site perched high on a rocky plateau receives 1.5 million visitors

Address the one who is Mary. Because she is full of grace. Address the one who is full of grace. Because she is with us. Address the one who is with us. Because the Lord is with her. Charles Péguy (French [...] beautiful, because she is also infinitely good. To the one who intercedes. The only one who can talk with a mother’s authority. Speak boldly to the one who is infinitely pure, because she is also infinitely

join in. It all started with an appeal from a French expatriate in Austria, Louis-Pierre Laroche, on YouTube. At the beginning of January 2022, Laroche shared his experience of a similar initiative in his [...] internationally, but not yet in France. Thanks to his video, the movement was started in France, with a website and an interactive map listing all the places where people gather to pray. The movement was [...] crises in its history - to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and implore her to come to the aid of its people. In La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée department, Marie-Claire confided to the newspaper Ouest-France

of Calmont. This place in the historical province of Rouergue has been dedicated to the Virgin Mary for a very long time. Historians attribute its foundation to Saint Martial himself, when he came to [...] reports that around the year 1150, there was in Hungary a blind prince palatine, very devoted to the Blessed Virgin, whom he often invoked in a chapel where he had seven lamps burning constantly before [...] where a storm caused him to lose some of his people. He then crossed the mountains of Languedoc on foot to the chapel of the Mounts, where, having entered, after greeting the Blessed Virgin, he had a mass

(1997) The Mystery of the Madonna of Bra (I) A miraculous rescue happened in Bra, a small town in the diocese of Turin, Italy, on the evening of December 29, 1336: a young woman named Egidia Mathis, several [...] several months pregnant, was walking by a votive column dedicated to the Madonna on the outskirts of the town, when two vagrant men came out of nowhere and surprised her with the intention of raping her—despite [...] help her. Immediately, a flash of light bolted out of the column, temporarily blinding the two men who, fled, terrified. Then the Madonna herself appeared, comforting Egidia for a few minutes, reassuring

of love, the possibility of sharing a meal and our daily concerns, conversing with others, being ourselves, and being welcomed and loved for who are.” A shrine is "a house of mercy," he said in conclusion [...] relationships and the overall condition of our lives." A shrine has a homey atmosphere, he continued: "Being at home does not just mean being under a roof and between four walls. For us, this word evokes [...] Beniamino Stella said in a homily for the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, on December 8, 2018, at the Marian Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto–believed to be the original house of Mary from Nazareth. The

Parolin gave each person a Rosary, advising them all to "go with confidence" to the Virgin Mary. "The Rosary is a simple but powerful prayer…" and "whether we are walking on a dusty road or we are at home [...] Door and a special Mass on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Saint Peter's Basilica. These new weapons are God’s weapons, the Cardinal observed: "The bread and wine of the Eucharist, a few words [...] "new weapons" Swiss Guards and Vatican police have received "new weapons" to provide better service: a "secret arsenal" that the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, handed them personally on September