es of Christ the Good Shepherd. May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance; be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the [...] the Word of God; zealous dispensers of God's grace in the Sacraments. May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to you, Mary, His mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry [...] August 4 - Our Lady of Dordrecht (Holland) - Saint John Vianney, Cure d’Ars (d. 1859) Twin Fountains of Fruitfulness Blessed Virgin, pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His
es of Christ the Good Shepherd. May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance; be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the [...] the Word of God; zealous dispensers of God's grace in the Sacraments. May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to you, Mary, His mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry [...] August 4 - Our Lady of Dordrecht (Holland) - Saint John Vianney, Cure d’Ars (d. 1859) Twin Fountains of Fruitfulness Blessed Virgin, pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His
March 8 - Saint John of God (+ 1550) The Adventurer of the Blessed Virgin (I) The Spaniards besieged Fontarabia, which was occupied by the French. The besiegers, in their idleness, fell into plundering [...] misconduct. Then one day, a soldier named John Ciudad managed to talk his captain out of abusing a young a girl. This act of courage caused John many future problems. The captain was furious and sought revenge [...] signal of a trumpet, his horse undertook a furious gallop, bucked and threw his rider against a rock. John was so wounded that he could not lift himself up and suffered from an inexpressible type of torture
reassuring vision: the victory of hope over anguish, of peace over uneasiness. “She represents the victory of hope over anguish, of communion over loneliness, of peace over upheaval, of joy and beauty over tedium [...] Eastern Orthodox feast of Hypapante: Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Let Mariology enter into the crucial questions of our time Pope Francis sent a message to the XXIV public session of the Pontifical Academies [...] experience of the two world wars that led Pope Pius XII to uphold Mary as a beacon of peace for a frightened humanity. The Second Vatican Council, he continued, pointed to her as a “teacher of humanity”
birth, praying to the Virgin Mary to intercede for them. Our Lady of the Dorada thus received the title of Our Lady of Deliverance. It was under her patronage that the tradition of wearing the blessed belt [...] the protection of the Mother of Christ and to share in her dignity as servant of the Lord. Even today, the protection of the Black Madonna is solicited by future mothers. The parish priest of the Dorada blesses [...] June 5 – Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1611) Our Lady of the Dorada blesses future mothers Our Lady of the Dorada (Daurade) Basilica in Toulouse, France, is probably the oldest Marian shrine in France. A former
Our Lady of the Castle (Italy, 1558) - Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions of the expectant Blessed Mother During her visions on the years of preaching [...] holy obedience and pure love of God, to have been conceived in her mother’s womb without any stain of sin. She also explained to them that but for the Fall the conception of all men would have been as pure [...] pure. I saw now the whole sequence of grace received by Mary’s parents just as I have always described it, from the appearance of the angel to Anna and Joachim down to their meeting under the Golden Gate;
(1854-1931), saw a light coming out of a crack in a rock, and then immediately afterwards, the "Virgin appeared in the center of this light", under the features of Our Lady of Sorrows. On April 5, 1888, a certain [...] commission of inquiry. On February 23, 1889, he declared: "I received an apparition of the Virgin. She appeared to me as Our Lady of Sorrows." The bishop decided to build a chapel at the "holy place" of the [...] with seven small stations evoking the seven major sorrows of Mary. On December 6, 1973, Pope Paul VI declared Our Lady of Castelpetroso patroness of the region, and more recently, in 1993, the shrine was
parts of the secret in 1925, especially the reparative communion of the first Saturdays of the month and the request to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. But neither the commission of inquiry [...] part of the secret, written down in August 1941, that for the first time she disclosed much of the secret - 2 of its 3 parts: the vision of hell, and the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A month [...] January 3, 1944: The Bishop of Fatima asks Sister Lucia to write down the third secret of Fatima The secret of Fatima is still not fully revealed The story of the secret of Fatima began on July 13, 1917
Feast of Our Lady of the Angels of Portiuncula (Italy) - Our Lady of the Kneeling (France) The imprints of the Virgin’s knees are still visible at this shrine Around the year 456, the Shrine of Our Lady [...] . The imprints of the knees of the Virgin Mary are still visible today in the chapel of the Agenouillade , protected by a grating in the middle of the nave. The Capuchin Fathers, entrusted with the church [...] Lady of Grau, each representing a Mystery of the Passion of Christ. This added to the popularity of the pilgrimage. The French Revolution destroyed all the chapels, and pilgrimages to Our Lady of Grau
March 8 - Saint John of God (+ 1550) The Adventurer of the Blessed Virgin (I) The Spaniards besieged Fontarabia, which was occupied by the French. The besiegers, in their idleness, fell into plundering [...] misconduct. Then one day, a soldier named John Ciudad managed to talk his captain out of abusing a young a girl. This act of courage caused John many future problems. The captain was furious and sought revenge [...] signal of a trumpet, his horse undertook a furious gallop, bucked and threw his rider against a rock. John was so wounded that he could not lift himself up and suffered from an inexpressible type of torture
