June 21 - Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary Thanks to Mary, he recognized his vocation at the age of 16 Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (1568 - June 20, 1591) belonged to a noble Spanish family. For [...] the young man recognized his vocation at the age of 16, and in a very clear manner, since he heard a heavenly voice tell him to enter the Society of Jesus. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga wore the Jesuit habit
June 12 - Mary Queen of China proclaimed in Zikawei (Shanghai, 1924) The Virgin Mary in the heart of Catholic China The Mary Help of Christians Shrine of Zo-sé (or Sheshan), located in the heart of Catholic [...] reopened to worship, the shrine was entrusted to the priests of the National Church, then separated from Rome, who in 1990 had a statue of Mary Help of Christians brought from Turin. Attilio GALLI, Madre della [...] China, is of national importance. It rises on a hill a few kilometers from Shanghai. Its origins date back to 1844 when a missionary, noticing the site of a dilapidated Buddhist temple, thought of building
May 25 - Our Lady of the Sea (Aix-en-Provence, France) - St Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Carmelite nun and mystic The Diocese of Gap in southern France is to be consecrated to the Virgin Mary In September 2020 [...] 2020, the diocese of Gap in Hautes Alpes, France, will kick off a Marian year to prepare for the consecration of this French department to the Virgin Mary. This time of spiritual renewal will include special [...] The Diocese of Gap, unlike many others dioceses, has never before been consecrated to the Virgin Mary or to the Sacred Heart. For example, because of the current pandemic, the diocese of Marseille recently
April 9 – Thursday of Holy Week - Byzantine Church: Holy Mary of the Spring – Holy Virgin Empress (Russia) The meaning of Mary’s presence at the Last Supper Scripture does not say so, but there is no doubt [...] doubt that the Mother of God was present at the Last Supper, on the night of Holy Thursday. Surely she came to Jerusalem as she always did for the Passover feast, and celebrated the Passover meal with [...] kept all of Jesus’ words in her heart, we can imagine how she received His farewell speech: “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you” (Lk 22:15). Could that have reminded her of the wedding
1858) – Pius XI’s Letter on France, “Kingdom of Mary” (1922) The Kingdom of France was once called Mary’s Kingdom The Virgin Mary, Mother of God, under the title of her Assumption into Heaven, was on many occasions [...] patroness of all France. ... According to an old adage, the Kingdom of France was called Mary’s Kingdom, and rightly so: from the first centuries of the Church to our time, Irenaeus and Eucherius of Lyon, [...] Hilary of Poitiers, Anselm (who left France to serve in England as Archbishop of Canterbury), Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis de Sales, and many other holy doctors of the Church, have celebrated Mary and helped
Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna and martyr (d. 155) – Apparition of Mary the Immaculate Mother of Victory to Cäcilia Geyer (Wangen/Wigratzbad, Germany, 1938), approved The first miracle of Mary Who Unties Knots [...] chapel of the monastery before an image of the Virgin Mary under the title of “Our Lady of the Snows.” When the two men met, Wolfgang gave his wedding ribbon to Father Rem. (In the marriage ceremony of that [...] apparition of Mary where she appeared to him under the title of “Mother Thrice Admirable.” During their meetings, Wolfgang and Father Rem would pray together and venerate the Virgin Mary. On the day of their
Our Lady of the Fire (Italy, 1428) – St Joan of France (d. 1505), foundress of the Order of the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary Saints and popes have defended the spiritual sword of Mary Saint John [...] Death killed 1/3 of the population of Europe; in the 19 th century, Our Lady called St Anthony Mary Claret a “ new St Dominic”; Pope Leo XIII wrote 11 encyclicals on the Rosary; the Servant of God Joseph Kentenich [...] called the Rosary a sword; the Servant of God Patrick Peyton gathered millions of people together to pray the Rosary; and Venerable Fulton J. Sheen created a special kind of Rosary known as the World Mission
It is a sculpture of Mary that survived the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. They call her the Virgin of Nagasaki or the Burnt Virgin. On Aug. 9, 1945, it was at the altar of the former Urakami cathedral [...] XIII consecrates France to Mary (1638) A symbol of the fight against nuclear weapons When Pope Francis offers Mass during international trips, an image of the Marian devotion of the country he is visiting [...] Mother of God. The image, also known as the Virgin of Urakami, is now in the new city’s new cathedral, built in 1959 on the ruins of the first one. It has become a symbol of peace and the fight against the
- Saint Mary of Saint Celse (Milan, Italy, 1485) Families and the example of the Christian home in Nazareth The Holy Family refers to the family formed by Jesus of Nazareth and his parents, Mary and Joseph [...] nearly 40 years as the Abbot of the restored Solesmes Abbey) explained the meaning of the feast of the Holy Family, saying: “The holy house of Nazareth is the perfect model of the Christian home. There, [...] was doing the will of God and speaking in his name ... Like a good superior, he made use of his authority only to fulfill the role of a servant, of a subject and an instrument. Mary, as it befits a wife
December 1 – First Sunday of Advent – Holy Mary of Graces (Italy, 1923) – Blessed Charles de Foucauld Advent is THE light of the world, hidden in the Virgin Mary’s womb For Brother Francis Huot, a Benedictine [...] Benedictine monk in charge of the Our Lady of Longeborgne Hermitage (Switzerland), Advent is very special: "I love the season of Advent because it is a time of hope." Brother Francis has lived in that hermitage [...] we can only see through hope and the certainty of faith. But it is more than a light: it is THE light of the world, hidden in the Virgin Mary’s womb. In Mary, God is thus already present in our midst. It