The indestructible image of Mary The small town of Ivrea in Piedmont, Italy, is home to a women’s religious community. Inside their convent is a painting of the Madonna with a very interesting past. The [...] Immaculate Virgin remained intact. Finally, Pizio shared his story with a priest, who advised him to bring the painting to the local nuns’ convent. It remained there until 1942, year of the bombing of Turin, [...] long, and depicts the Immaculate Virgin crushing the head of a snake. This painting was part of an estate sale held in Turin in the house of a Waldensian* named Albert Pizio, on December 8, 1859. On the

trust in Mary Having cherished the Blessed Virgin from an early age and oriented his whole life to serving God, the young Italian Dominic Savio died on March 9, 1857, at the age of 14. He had been a pupil [...] to do everything with an unlimited trust in Mary, to help Don Bosco and his associates keep up the true spirit of the house, and to welcome newcomers. Each companion was thus allotted a “godson” whom he [...] pupil of the Italian priest and educator Saint John Bosco(1), in Turin, Italy. Don Bosco quickly noticed Dominic’s abilities and his great desire for holiness. His example and death had a strong influence on

Long before she received The Secret of Mary , Marthe was already living in deep communion with Mary, her Mother. The reading of The Secret of Mary was probably for her a luminous confirmation of what she had [...] Marthe Robin and the Virgin Mary Marthe Robin, a French Catholic mystic (1902-1981) and co-founder with Father Georges Finet of the Foyers de Charité, wrote this about St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort's [...] Secret of Mary : "The Blessed Virgin Mary said that this little book should really be the central book of all our Foyer de Charité homes, and even beyond, for the whole Church "(cf Father Finet, in a talk to

not be afraid, my child, I am the Blessed Virgin Mary" In 1686, a news item shook the village of Celles (France): Four women had violently beaten a priest. The victim took the case to court and obtained [...] July, the Virgin appeared to John a second time, in his room: "You have done what I asked and have done it well. The water from the fountain will be good. The people have changed their lives and are becoming [...] May 28, 1686, between eight and nine o'clock a.m., a young peasant boy named John Courtilh, was praying the Rosary on his way back from the fields, when he saw a "white pigeon" in front of him. As he arrived

contacts. It was a bit like tossing a message in a bottle into the sea, and I entrusted it completely to the Blessed Virgin. The fruits were unexpected. A website was born: www.fatima100.fr , with a bi-monthly [...] about Fatima could have led me to a devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary? My story begins in 2007. I read a book on the famed "Third Secret of Fatima." This book raised many questions for me about the [...] s to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the First Saturdays Devotion, Living Rosaries, etc. All this with a very small team and no financial means. The many testimonies we have received since then show that

questioning the seer, he celebrated Mass. That morning, a woman with a serious nervous disease was present, which caused her to bend her legs in such a way that her heels touched the lower part of her back. Her [...] themselves, if they turned to her intercession with faith. In fact, many cures were recorded in a short period of time: a child recovered the use of an eye; a person was cured of an ulcer in his hand. Even [...] ) My Name is Lady Mary (III) In September 1665, an investigation into the apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father Antoine Lambert. After having finished questioning

questioning the seer, he celebrated Mass. That morning, a woman with a serious nervous disease was present, which caused her to bend her legs in such a way that her heels touched the lower part of her back. Her [...] themselves, if they turned to her intercession with faith. In fact, many cures were recorded in a short period of time: a child recovered the use of an eye; a person was cured of an ulcer in his hand. Even [...] ) My Name is Lady Mary (III) In September 1665, an investigation into the apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father Antoine Lambert. After having finished questioning

(six), Unions, Leagues and a branch of "pilgrims". All the members of these organizations, whatever their background (nationality, profession and state of life), have close ties with the heart of the movement [...] Schoenstatt Movement gives an important place to Mary Like many movements of Christian renewal given by the Holy Spirit to the Church today – the Legion of Mary, the Foyers de Charité, the Focolare, and all [...] municipality of Vallendar, a few kilometers north of Koblenz, on the banks of the Rhine in central-western Germany. The name was given to this green valley in the 12th century, when a monastery of Augustinian

apparitions, the Virgin Mary's gave many insights to Estelle, which the young woman used as practical advice to help her have a greater faith in God and in his merciful action. Mary taught Estelle to not [...] trust. This is Mary's great pedagogy at Pellevoisin: she teaches us not to let go of her hand and to trust her in all situations. In the apparition the Virgin Mary wore over her chest a special scapular of [...] mission not only to welcome in her heart the divine love that Mary revealed to her, but also to be a witness of it in today’s world. Estelle was a sinner, like all of us, and she was not yet fully aware of

the rest of our lives. Mary is an excellent teacher. Many saints have looked to her to teach them the virtues and how to live the Christian life. Mary has also revealed herself as a teacher in another way: [...] third and final apparition (the only time Mary spoke), Adele became a student of Our Lady, learning heavenly lessons and then being asked to become a teacher, a catechist, herself. Nearly 160 years removed [...] Therese of Lisieux Mary is an excellent teacher Whenever we pray the Rosary, as Saint John Paul II said, we sit in “the school of Mary,” asking her to teach us about her son Jesus. With October being dedicated