depicts the persecution of the early Christians in Rome under Emperor Nero, along with an imprisoned Saint Paul conveying a message of hope at the end of his life. Caviezel plays the role of Saint Luke, who [...] audience sees Luke serving the early Christian community in Rome as a physician, spiritual leader and writer. “He [Luke] mentioned the Virgin Mary more than any other writer,” reflected Caviezel on portraying [...] every day and the Eucharist is Christ in me,” Caviezel continued, “Everything that I do is always with heaven's help. It directs my path. It guides me. It is where I got my talent from. What I give back
and the clergy refused to grant him a Christian burial. He was interred outside the walls, in a ditch, like a wretched wrongdoer. The Sweet Lady, however, who never forgets her children, remembered her servant [...] beat his chest, weeping, filled with tender feelings and repentance. The Devil, however, managed to bring about this sinner’s death before he could confess or speak to a priest. No one mourned him, and [...] (942) Five roses in bloom came out of the mouth of the wrongdoer In Chartres (France), there lived a proud and wicked clerk who never tried to resist his temptations and sinned at every turn, forgetful
especially at the hour of death. Wearing the scapular is a very simple act that requires only a small effort, that of having it imposed on oneself by a priest, and then of wearing it constantly on one's person [...] saved Fatima's seer Sister Lucia strongly emphasized the importance of wearing the scapular in a conversation with Father Rafferty on October 15, 1950. “In many books on Fatima," Father Rafferty remarked, "the [...] the commitment to serve entails the wearing of a uniform. In the same way, the scapular manifests, on the part of the one who wears it, his belonging to Mary and, on the part of Our Lady, the commitment
point of becoming exhausted and consumed with love to bear witness for them. And as a reward I mainly receive only ingratitude." Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him in prayer each Thursday [...] of Mary. "All you who pass this way, look and see: is there any sorrow like the sorrow inflicted on me?" (Lm 1:12). At the time of the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
touch her, not even with the thinnest end of its large untamed wing. Nobody has ever lived, suffered, or died as simply as Mary, nor lived in such pure ignorance of her own dignity, a dignity which however [...] however placed her above the angels. She was of course born without sin, what amazing solitude! Mary is a source so pure - so limpid, so limpid and so pure that she could not even see her own reflection. She
touch her, not even with the thinnest end of its large untamed wing. Nobody has ever lived, suffered, or died as simply as Mary, nor lived in such pure ignorance of her own dignity, a dignity which however [...] however placed her above the angels. She was of course born without sin, what amazing solitude! Mary is a source so pure - so limpid, so limpid and so pure that she could not even see her own reflection. She
Marian shrine. Centered around the example of Mary Immaculate and with her intercession, this pilgrimage allows a renewal of faith in prayer, reconciliation with God, and fraternal sharing," he said in 1967 [...] Shrine in France, in 1983. He came back for a second visit in 2004. After him Pope Benedict XVI came in 2008. But as early as the 1890s, six future popes made a pilgrimage to Lourdes as cardinals, before
wine between Rome and Corsica. A client from Rome, temporarily insolvent and owing money to the Danese family, offered to pay his debt by sending a painting of the Virgin Mary. In the packaging containing [...] to build a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin, in which the painting was installed—in the foreground of the painting is the Virgin on her knees, giving a kiss to the Child and covering him with her veil—in [...] cousin Elizabeth, John the Baptist as a child, and Saint Joseph. The first famous miracle of Our Lady of Lavasina took place in 1675: a nun from Bonifacio, Sister Marie Agnes, 40 years-old at the time, had
The Black Madonna is a painting of the Madonna and Child which, according to popular legend, was painted by St Luke the Evangelist. St Luke is believed to have used a tabletop from a table built by Jesus [...] pilgrimage there. She gave the painting to her son, Constantine, who had a shrine built in Constantinople to house it. In a critical battle with the Saracens, the portrait was displayed from above the city walls [...] finally stopped in the town of Czestochowa, where the painting was installed in a small church. Later, the Prince had a church and a Pauline monastery built to ensure the painting's safety. In 1430, the Hussites
The Black Madonna is a painting of the Madonna and Child which, according to popular legend, was painted by St Luke the Evangelist. St Luke is believed to have used a tabletop from a table built by Jesus [...] pilgrimage there. She gave the painting to her son, Constantine, who had a shrine built in Constantinople to house it. In a critical battle with the Saracens, the portrait was displayed from above the city walls [...] finally stopped in the town of Czestochowa, where the painting was installed in a small church. Later, the Prince had a church and a Pauline monastery built to ensure the painting's safety. In 1430, the Hussites
