community) dedicated to the Nativity. The first icon to be painted there was a copy of the “Portaitissa.” Near the same date, a Chilean convert to Orthodoxy, Jose Munoz, an art teacher in Montreal, embarked on

Rosary victory was won at the Battle of Muret on September 12, 1213. A small town in southern France near the city of Toulouse, Muret was a stronghold for the Albigensians. Due to the efforts of Saint Dominic

international trips, an image of the Marian devotion of the country he is visiting is usually placed near the altar. On Nov. 24, 2019 the image used at a papal Mass in Nagasaki had an additional significance:

made him late… and saved many lives! In 1932, my grandfather worked as a slate mason in a German mine near Luxembourg. Every morning he would go to work on foot, while reciting his Rosary. At that time there

dying without receiving the last sacraments." Again the priest approached the dying man who was nearing the end, but gathering his last strength he lifted himself up and shouted: "In the triple name of

In fact, John miraculously gave this witness while still in the womb, leaping for joy as Mary came near carrying Jesus in her womb. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Elizabeth suddenly understood that the child's

the churches in the Holy Land. A new monastery was constructed in 1881 in the village of Beit Jamal, near the location of the ruins of the earlier church. It served as an agriculture school for the poor and

Fr. O’Hara and another parishioner had time for a quick Hail Mary, and, amazingly, after traveling nearly 100 yards, the roof stopped at the back of the marble statue of Our Lady, which was imported from

"the backpack hero" by the media, the 24-year-old man, who introduced himself as Henri, said he was near a playground when he saw the man attack children in a stroller, while their mother tried to protect

National Shrine of Colombia is the Basilica of Our Lady of Las Lajas, located in southern Colombia, near the small town of Ipiales. But it is the Basilica of Chiquinquirá, which houses the image of the Virgen