Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major) in Rome, as early as the 4th century A.D. She appeared in a dream to a patrician named John and to Pope Liberius, and asked for a church to be built and dedicated to her, [...] of Theotokos, "Mother of God" for the Blessed Virgin. The Basilica Saint Mary Major, the first Marian basilica in the West and the most important of all the churches dedicated to the Mother of God in Rome [...] conserved its paleo-Christian structures. The miraculous icon "Salus Populi Romani" and relics of the manger are venerated there, and the "Miracle of the Snow" is recalled each year on the 5th of August by a solemn
Castellane lived a 9-year old boy named John Latil, who was deaf and mute from birth and had never walked. His father, Lucretius Martin, heard about the great graces dispensed by Mary at her shrine of Bargemon [...] the end of the novena and to bring her an offering, despite his poverty. As evidenced by the signs he addressed to his father when he spoke to him of his promise to the Virgin Mary, the boy had the same [...] disposition of heart and the same resolve. They started on their way. When they arrived in sight of Bargemon, just upon seeing the Marian chapel, the boy suddenly began to speak and walk without any difficulty
Annunciation, and as a preparation for the great solemnity of our Lord's Nativity. In course of time, however, the Church of Spain saw the necessity of returning to the practice of the Church of Rome, and of those [...] giving him birth. A new Feast was instituted, under the name of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin. This Feast, which sometimes goes under the name of Our Lady of O , or the Feast of O, on account of the [...] joyful solemnity frequently occurs at the time when the Church is intent upon the Passion of our Lord, and is sometimes obliged to be transferred into Easter Time, with which it is out of harmony for another
necessary that you, personally, go and plead, and that thanks to you my wishes be carried out by your intercession. Also I beg you, my humblest and dearest son, and I insist that you go tomorrow to see [...] once again. In my name, make him hear and understand my will and desire, so that my House of God may be built. Tell him again very carefully how I, personally, the ever-virgin Saint Mary, Mother of God, [...] the Queen of Heaven was waiting for him, and begged her to find someone else to carry her message, "someone nobler, someone who is held in esteem, respected and honored, one whom the bishop will believe
pilgrims came to the village before and after the war, and continue to flock there today, in order to pray, to be reconciled with God through sacramental confession, and to hear what the Blessed Mother wishes [...] world Beginning on June 25, 1981, six children claimed to have daily visions of the Virgin Mary, who gave her name as the "Queen of Peace" in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her initial message was surprising: [...] wishes to tell them. Many priests and bishops have witnessed significant graces and spiritual fruits coming from Medjugorje, which has unquestionably become one of the leading places of conversion in the
oratory where they placed the little statue and where they came to recite the Rosary with neighbors and friends. Graces and miracles abounded. The Virgin Mary brought many blessings to the Brazilian people [...] Conception In September 1717, a hundred miles from Sao Paulo, Brazil, three fishermen named Domingos Garcia, Felipe Pedroso and Joao Alves discovered a small statue of the Immaculate Conception caught in their [...] e 275,000 people. The shrine, a focal point for the Church of Brazil, receives 8 million pilgrims and visitors every year. See: Our Lady of Aparecida
genetrix . For centuries and centuries those ancient hands, so full of sin, cherished the wondrous girl-child whose name even was unknown. A little girl, the queen of the angels! And she's still a little girl [...] pity, wondering sadness, and with something more in them, never yet known or expressed, something that makes her younger than sin, younger than the race from which she sprang, and though a Mother by grace [...] youngest sister. Georges Bernanos Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest), Plon, 1936 Marie de Nazareth
Israel. The New Testament writers, you see, were careful to show us Mary's important place in the kingdom, and how we should love and honor her. [...] faithful Jew, kept the Fourth Commandment and honored His mother. Since Christ is our brother, she is our mother too. Indeed, at the end of John's Gospel, Jesus named her as the mother of all of us beloved [...] of Israelites. In Matthew's Gospel especially, we find Jesus portrayed as the royal Son of David and Mary as the queen mother. The Wise Men, for example, traveled far to find the Child King with his mother
catechizing Bernadette and a whole crowd of people. In December 1947, in the French town of L’Ile-Bouchard, Mary taught some children how to pray, over the course of seven days, hence her name of Our Lady of Prayer [...] Sessions: A Marian Pedagogy Historically, Mary’s apparitions have usually lasted from several days to several weeks. They are to be understood as processes of conversion, and schools of discipleship. Interestingly [...] are a kind of Sunday school. Father Paul Dollié, a parish priest in Paris, noticed Mary’s special teaching method, and created the Saint Mark Sessions (in French, le Parcours Saint Marc ). These sessions
pray, we will possess an inexhaustible source of strength and faith. I place my trust in these million and million prayers and pilgrimages and in the Rosary of my Mother." In 1948, he declared: "My deepest [...] Hungarians would pick up their Rosary and start begging Mary." And in one of his pastoral letters: "We see the finger of God in the events of History--even in the perils and storms. This is why our trust in [...] you to place your destiny--through Mary--in the hands of God. Let us return to the oldest sources of our Hungarian patrimony! Let us give back to the Virgin Mary the name of Queen, so she may take hold of
