statue to miraculously bleed. Understandably, the faithful started coming there to pray to the Virgin Mary. Later, a beautiful church was built, topped by one of the largest elliptical domes in the world, [...] itself, an annual festival - "The Madonna Fair" - attracts many visitors to the site each year. The Marie de Nazareth Team See also: Library of Marian Writings
horseman. Father Wu, a Chinese priest, admitted having prayed to Mary for help. A church was built on the site, honoring a picture of Mary and the Christ Child which was placed over the main altar. During
Chartres). Here, Mary presents her Son everywhere. The entire cathedral is a celebration of the Incarnation. Our Lady is depicted 173 times... The most famous representations of Mary are: Our Lady of
November 10 - Our Lady of Loreto (1552) She is a Sign of Sure Hope and Comfort (II) You, Mary, who at Pentecost, together with the Apostles in prayer, called upon the gift of the Holy Spirit for the newborn [...] comfort," we trustfully turn our gaze "until the day of the Lord shall come" (Lumen Gentium, #68). You, Mary, are invoked with the insistent prayer of the faithful throughout the world so that you, exalted above
wedlock he may have had prior to marrying the Blessed Virgin. Those who speak thus want to safeguard Mary's honor in her virginity until the end. Of course they can't admit that the body chosen for the instrument [...] power of the Most High. I believe that the palm of virginity must belong to Jesus among men and to Mary among women. How could we, without impiousness, allot to another woman the palm of virginity?
June 16 - Canonization of Padre Pio (2002) To Our Mother of Perpetual Help O Mary, Immaculate Virgin and my Holy Mother, although I am the most miserable of all sinners, I have recourse this day to you [...] loveable Dispenser of the divine graces, eternal and Immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit, O holy Mary, you who received from Him a heart that takes pity on the misfortunes of mankind and cannot resist
him on the path of the gift of ourselves to Christ through the intercession of Mary, and may she herself, the Virgin Mary, obtain it for us while we entrust to her motherly hands this father, brother and [...] private chapel he spoke to Jesus, abandoning himself totally to His will, and entrusting himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus. Like his Divine Teacher, he lived his agony in prayer. On the last day
day, she asked Mary what was to become of her. The Blessed Virgin said that she would see her no more, that she would be with Estelle, but invisible. Holding out the scapular, which Mary had asked Estelle [...] her Son, straight from His heart. When the Blessed Mother started to leave, Estelle became very sad. Mary reassured her, “Be brave, if he [the Prelate] does not do what you desire, go higher up. Do not be
devotion of all those engrossed in prayer in search of comfort and assistance before the image of Mary, who is venerated here under the beloved title of Salus Populi Romani . Every August 5th, a solemn [...] church was built here by Pope Liberius (352-66), on the site of an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The legend has it that the Virgin appeared to Pope Liberius and the patrician Giovanni Patrizio on [...] the floor plan was outlined by a miraculous snowfall. This was a time when churches dedicated to Mary were beginning to spring up all over the empire, prompted by an increasingly popular devotion to the
only, Mary, to gaze upon you. To gaze upon you, to weep with joy, to know this – That I am your son and that you are here. Only for that moment when everything stops. Noon! To be with you, Mary, in this [...] Because it is noon, because we are here today, Because you are there forever, simply because you are Mary, simply because you exist. Mother of our Lord, be thanked! Paul Claudel, The Virgin at Noon, excerpted
