to the Virgin Mary is mentioned in Scripture on several occasions: First, it was revealed by the Archangel Gabriel, who, when addressing Mary, said to her, "Hail Mary" or "Rejoice O Mary," because in Greek [...] to say that Mary was very lucky? Of course not! The Angel's words carry the full meaning of "filled with grace." Adapted from an article by Hervé Marie Catta* 1,000 Questions *Hervé Marie Catta (b. 1939) [...] albeit under a slightly different name: The "All Pure." Protestants should realize that the Immaculate Conception is in conformity with Scripture. Of course it was not Mary’s own doing! It was a gift of God
together and bring them back to her. Juan Diego followed her orders and came upon an amazing sight: multitudes of magnificent flowers in full bloom were growing there in mid-winter. He picked and gathered [...] gathered them all and put them in his tilma. Then he brought them to the Blessed Virgin who took them in her hands and said, "My humblest and dearest son, these different flowers are the proof, the sign to take [...] bishop. In my name, tell him that he is to see in these flowers my desire and my will. You are my messenger; in you I place my absolute trust. I strictly order you to open your tilma and show what you
in Japan and many have managed to conserve their faith even without priests, for two and a half centuries. I then led the small group to the Blessed Virgin's altar. And filled with joy and emotion, they [...] Nagasaki and fitted up a small church in this city. "One day," he said, "a group of 12 to 15 men, women and children, stood outside the door of our church. I hastened to open it. A woman approached and said [...] In Urakami most people have the same heart." And immediately this woman asked: "Where is the picture of the Blessed Virgin?" Upon hearing this blessed name, I no longer had any doubts. I realized that
the icon moved away. At that time there was at Iviron a holy Georgian monk named Gabriel. The Mother of God appeared to him and ordered him to go to the shore to retrieve her icon. The astonished community [...] community of monks looked on as Brother Gabriel confidently walked on the waves, collected the icon, and brought it back to shore. The holy image was deposited in the main church of the monastery. But the next [...] monastery! Finally, the Mother of God appeared to Gabriel again to say that she did not want to be guarded and protected by the monks, but that instead she had come to save them from all dangers, according to the
a priest. The priest took the case to court and obtained justice. On May 28, 1686, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, a young peasant boy named John Courdil was coming back from the fields [...] was afraid and he tried to flee. "Do not be afraid, my child," he heard a voice say, "I am the Holy Virgin." He knelt down, the apparition did the same. "Warn the people to change their lives and make eight [...] processions so that the people convert. Otherwise, all is lost [...]. Continue to serve your father and your mother as you have always done."
the way. He then had a change of heart towards God and asked for baptism. A Christian passing by poured water on his head. The chief did not die and he became one of the apostles of Our Lady. The enthusiasm [...] 1944, Pope Pius XII ratified the decree of the bishops, and officially declared in a brief of the Holy See Our Lady of Coromoto patron of Venezuela and crowned the statue. He set up the shrine in a basilica [...] one year after huge floods, but the place of the apparition became a place of pilgrimage under the name of "Our Lady of Coromoto." On March 1, 1942, the Venezuelan Episcopate, joined together in plenary
the way. He then had a change of heart towards God and asked for baptism. A Christian passing by poured water on his head. The chief did not die and he became one of the apostles of Our Lady. The enthusiasm [...] 1944, Pope Pius XII ratified the decree of the bishops, and officially declared in a brief of the Holy See Our Lady of Coromoto patron of Venezuela and crowned the statue. He set up the shrine in a basilica [...] one year after huge floods, but the place of the apparition became a place of pilgrimage under the name of "Our Lady of Coromoto." On March 1, 1942, the Venezuelan Episcopate, joined together in plenary
an obscure monk called Saint Langorius venerated in the churches of Crain and Escamps (France), it seems certain that the name actually refers to a local denomination of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, [...] Languor (France) Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows In Boutissaint (Department of Yonne, France), near Sens and Auxerre, is the shrine of Notre-Dame de Langueur, a priory founded in the second half of the 12th century [...] Saint-Symphorien de Treigny (Yonne, France), where an altar of the ambulatory, consecrated around 1830 and decorated with a beautiful carved Pietà, is framed with the following painted inscription: Salvation
1607) She makes 15 rosaries a day If the name Paul Kim Tae-Won doesn’t sound familiar to you, it's because you're not a young Korean. He is a pop-rock star and his Youtube channel has over 5 million views [...] d son judgmentally. Then I started distributing the rosaries I made to my neighbors." The patient and repetitive work gradually changed into prayer: "I make these rosaries with the hope that the grace
story of her short and simple life and is punctuated by bold and surprising assertions of her biographer, supported by strong evidence. One is that Bernadette is to Lourdes what Mary is to the Church. [...] not her meeting with the Virgin Mary that made young Bernadette a saint—the little shepherdess was already a saint before the apparitions took place. This conclusive and inspiring perspective comes out [...] interrogations from civil and religious authorities. Today we would call it harassment. But the ordeal never fazed her. She remained calm, poised, precise, able to catch trick questions—and sometimes gently m
