December 1st - Our Lady of Ratisbon (Bavaria, 1842) Mary in the Temple (XI) The glory of that second Temple will surpass that of the first After the exile, to comfort those who were rebuilding the Temple
October 17 - Our Lady of Chartres (grotto dedicated in 46 AD by St Pontianus, France) Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victorious Lady of Schoenstatt (I) The International Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement
October 1st - Slavic Byzantine Church, Our Lady of Prokov - Saint Romanos the Melodist (6th C.) The Cantor of the Virgin Mary The only authority for the life and date of this greatest of Greek hymn-writers [...] hymn-writers is the account in the Menaion for October; his feast is October 1st in Orthodox Churches. Romanos served as deacon in the church at Berytus, and came to Constantinople during the reign of Anastasios
September 22 - St Thomas de Villeneuve (d. 1555) She Exceeds All Thought and Intelligence I wondered why the Evangelists, after having spoken about John the Baptist and the Apostles in great length, skimmed
September 1st - Leo XIII declared October as the Month of the Holy Rosary (1883) Memory of Mary on Saturdays (I) The dedication of Saturdays to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the liturgy began during the
August 12 - Our Lady de la Motte (1854, Vesoul, France) - St Jeanne de Chantal - Feast Day in France May Your Hearts Be Like Empty Vessels O very blessed Mother, as you were the largest, the most able
May 1st - Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker Mary’s Husband, the Carpenter Leo XIII wrote, "Joseph, of royal descent, united in marriage with the most sublime and saintly of women, the putative father of
April 16 - Our Lady of Victories in the Church of St Mark (Venice, Italy) At Notre-Dame des Victoires During her pilgrimage to Rome, St Therese of Lisieux experienced Mary's faithful tenderness, through
March 29 - Apparition of Our Lady to St Bonnet (7th C.) Mary’s Tears (I) The tears of the Mother of Sorrows fill the Scriptures and flow down across the centuries. All of the weeping mothers, widows and
April 1st - Our Lady of Tears (Sicily, 1953) The Virgin’s Hymn at the Foot of the Cross Little did I think, my Son, that one day I would see you thus, Little would I have believed, Even seeing that wild
