This lady then offered the shrine and the property to Father Marie-Eugène, a Carmelite, "for a Carmelite project". Thus, in 1932, Father Marie-Eugène founded the Notre-Dame de Vie Institute. Our Lady of [...] and St. Therese of the Child Jesus. Father Marie-Eugène died on March 27, 1967, an Easter Monday, a day on which he liked to celebrate the Easter joy of Mary, Mother of Life. His cause for canonization

della Strada (Our Lady of the Journey) popular among pilgrims One of my favorite songs dedicated to Mary, Santa Maria del Cammino, is rarely heard in English, though apparently a little-used translation [...] Lady of the Way,” or “…of the Wayside,” or “…of the Streets,” or “…of the Good Road.” This feast of Mary is celebrated May 24, and interestingly has connections with the renewed interest in synodal ecclesiology [...] from the tomb of Saint Ignatius Loyola, who had a strong devotion to it. As it has for centuries, Mary’s hand in the lower right corner still extends to countless Christians who have knelt before her seeking

the reign of Louis XIV and the Regency, the Virgin Mary appeared to Benoîte Rencurel, a shepherdess from the Avance Valley (Hautes-Alpes, France). Mary said to her messenger: "I have asked my Son for Le [...] church be built here, where many sinners will convert." For 350 years, this kindness of the Virgin Mary for her children has not ceased to unfold in the hearts of those who let themselves be taken in by [...] has for sinners and invited her to share in his sufferings to save them. Benoîte was comforted by Mary and the angels during the great difficulties she experienced: a 20-year persecution by Jansenist priests

Orleans, U.S.A) I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners A year after the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette in Lourdes (France, 1858), she appeared on three different days in the [...] Wisconsin, near the Great Lakes. More than 150 years separate these apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church’s official approval. In early October 1859, a 28-year-old woman named Adele Brise walked [...] y shared what had happened with her family. She also quickly took up the task entrusted to her by Mary. In the months and years that followed, Adele walked from village to village and home to home, over

of the Virgin Mary to whom they offer a bouquet of flowers. I also believe that praying the Rosary together can make praying as a couple a little easier. As I meditated the Rosary with Mary our mother on [...] on behalf of couples, it occurred to me to ask the intercession of the holy couple of Mary and Joseph, to touch the heart of Jesus. I think the life of a married couple is like a Rosary." Interview by Guy

also particularly venerate the Virgin Mary. All Cistercian churches are dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption. The Cistercians understood how the Virgin Mary was a model of openness to the mystery [...] over the world, Cistercian monks and nuns end the day by singing the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen). Mary is present with us in our "valley of tears" as a "Mother of mercy" who shows us Christ, the Savior

being. It is no longer bare Faith in the night, it is love explaining and working. Joseph is with Mary and Mary is with the Father. Paul Claudel (1858-1955) French playwright, poet, essayist and diplomat, member [...] earth when the dew rises, He feels the fullness of night, and he is at ease with joy and with truth. Mary is in his possession and he surrounds her on all sides. It is not in a single day he learned how not

Bosco learned from his mother (a widow) to love and pray to the Virgin Mary, and he turned to her often. When he was 9 years old, Mary showed him the path he should follow. He had a vision in the form of [...] nine-year-old,” helped John Bosco understand his mission more clearly, over the years. It is plain that Mary played a central role in revealing his mission to John, which was to care for the poor and abandoned

meditated on Mary's gaze (referring to the fact that the images of the seer of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Saint Juan Diego, and the people surrounding him, were visible in the eyes of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe) [...] 1531) - Saint Juan Diego Where the mother is, the sense of unity will always triumph "Celebrating Mary is, first and foremost, remembering our mother, remembering that we are not and never will be an orphaned

Fatima 1917-2017, La dévotion au cœur immaculé de Marie, de 1917 à la Venue glorieuse du Christ (Fatima 1917-2017, The Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, from 1917 to the Glorious Second Coming of Christ) [...] Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the Third Secret The interpretation of the third secret given by the Virgin Mary to the young seers of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, was made in 2000 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then