Italy, Fabiana Cecchino (1853-1939) and Serafina Giovanna Valentino (1854-1931), saw a light coming out of a cleft in a rock, and immediately afterwards, the "Madonna appeared in the center of this light" [...] Anthony of Padua and Sebastian. On May 16, 1888, a priest alleged an apparition of Christ bleeding, with his Mother. Healings were reported, including that of a child who was born mute. Thousands of people [...] created a commission of inquiry. On February 23, 1889, he declared: "I experienced an apparition of the Virgin. She appeared to me in the guise of Our Lady of Sorrows." The prelate wished to have a chapel

She is celebrated in Spain on November 9. In 1885, Pope Leo XIII issued a bull to create the diocese of Madrid. A few decades later, a cathedral was built to be the bishop's seat. This is how the cathedral [...] conquest, was "Mary the Great" (Santa Maria la Mayor). There are several traditions about the origin of this shrine. The most famous one is that the statue of the Virgin of Almudena was hidden in a wall in the [...] stones of the wall collapsed, and the statue was found with two candles still burning, despite the passing of several centuries. Another tradition involves a Marian apparition to the Castilian hero Rodrigo Díaz

out this broken-hearted cry, his temptation disappeared. Still a young student Francis dedicated his life to God and his virginity to Mary, and, as proof of his commitment, he promised to recite the rosary [...] part in the debate. On this point, Francis followed the views of Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas with his eyes closed, until one day he surprised himself by thinking, “And what if God rejected me? And [...] his anguish, he returned home, alone from college. He entered to the church Saint Etienne des Gres. A child in despair, he ran “straight" to his divine mother. In the chapel of the Blessed Virgin, he humbly

the flight to Egypt, the Holy Family stopped here to get some rest. While the Virgin Mary was nursing the Baby Jesus, a drop of her milk fell to the floor. The rock on which it fell immediately turned white [...] Spanish settlers who came to St Augustine in the 1600s brought with them their devotion to Nuestra Senora de la Leche (Our Lady of the Milk). A miraculous statue of the Madonna and Child under this title [...] title had been set up in the Madrid cathedral by King Philip III, and a replica of this statue was brought to St Augustine and set up in a special shrine built by settlers and Native American converts on the

from a death-like pallor to a very vivid redness, becoming covered with sweat and shedding tears." The author adds: "In order that the certainty of the fact may be better established, God allowed a skeptic [...] Our Lady of Cléry, in a small book written in honor of this shrine built in 1280 after the miraculous discovery of a statue of the Blessed Virgin by peasants. The author devotes a large part of the book [...] Lady of Graces (Cotignac, France, 1519) The Blessed Virgin wept over the scandals of the French Court A touching miracle took place on Pentecost Monday, 26th May 1670, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Cléry

Small red rosaries unite Japan and France The Marian Shrine of Pontmain in France has a special spiritual connection with Japan, on account of the Red Rosary, known as the "Crown of the Japanese Martyrs." [...] people, including children) were executed on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, on the orders of Taïko (mayor of the palace) Hideyoshi Toyotomi. This was the beginning of a long period of persecution against Christians [...] beginning of the Meiji Era in the 1860s. More than two and a half centuries later, in 1862, nine years before the apparition of the Virgin Mary in Pontmain, the 26 martyrs of Nagasaki were canonized in

in a wooded area, the Virgin accompanied by two angels "appeared" to a group of persecuted Christians. "She was wearing a beautiful, oriental style cloak, holding the Infant Jesus in her arms," a witness [...] occurred at the shrine. A special pilgrimage and a tradition of prayer have continued for two centuries. In 1886, a small chapel was built on the site of the apparitions. In 1901, a church was built and blessed [...] government persecution. At this time a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary took place: Our Lady came to comfort and support them. Since then, there has been a constant stream of pilgrims to the shrine

not forget to consecrate yourselves to me on October 7th. Be good. I am Mary, Mediatrix of all graces." The following October 3rd, a "rain of rose petals" occurred again. On Friday, November 12, 1948, Teresita [...] rubbed the ailing foot with some water which had been set before the wooden statue of the Virgin inside her new chapel. On December 6, 1948, an official report was sent to Bishop A. Verzosa, of Lipa. The

Cathedral of Chartres now stands, the Druids raised a prophetic statue of a virgin, and called it Virgini Pariturae (virgin who would bear a son). The Druids were a fraternity of priests, religious teachers and [...] Druids had a place of worship at Chartres, and even then, they had an altar in a grotto on a hill now occupied by the Cathedral; this altar was dedicated to the “Virgin who would bring forth a son” – tr [...] all over the earth [or they may have been a segment of the Jews themselves who kept their prophecies and traditions with them]; they might have received it from a revelation direct from God; they may have