March 2 - Eighth and Last Apparition at Banneux (Belgium, 1933) The Virgin of the Poor At Banneux, Mary spoke only a few short phrases to a young girl named Mariette Beco, perhaps telling us to meditate [...] in you. Pray often. Good bye." "My dear child, pray often. Good bye." "I am the Mother of the Savior, the Mother of God, Pray often. Fare well." [...] "This stream is reserved for me, Good evening." "Push your hands into the water." "I am the Virgin of the poor." "This spring is reserved for all the nations - to relieve the sick." "I shall pray for you
the word of the serpent, bore disobedience and death; the Virgin Mary, having conceived faith and joy, answered: "Let it be done to me according to your word." So he was born of her, the One of whom so [...] Scriptures speak. By Him God destroyed the empire of the serpent and of those who, angels or men, have become like him; and he frees from death those who repent of their sins and believe in Him. Saint Justin [...] December 24 – Vigil of the Nativity God destroyed the empire of the serpent Christ became man through the Virgin, so that the disobedience caused by the serpent should end in the same way in which it had
found a statue of Mary at the foot of an oak tree not far from the river. The Blessed Virgin was holding an apple in one hand and the Infant Jesus in the other. She is called "Comforter of the Afflicted" [...] Aug 24 - Consecration of Our Lady of Benoite-Vaux (France, 1138) The Valley of Benediction As from 1140, the monks from Etanche Abbey in France owned land and a chapel in the little valley watered by a [...] a little tributary of the Meuse, half way between Verdun and Bar-le-Duc: they called it the Valley of Benediction or "Benoite-Vaux." According to the legend, woodcutters are said to have heard Angels singing
March 2 - Eighth and Last Apparition at Banneux (Belgium, 1933) The Virgin of the Poor At Banneux, Mary spoke only a few short phrases to a young girl named Mariette Beco, perhaps telling us to meditate [...] in you. Pray often. Good bye." "My dear child, pray often. Good bye." "I am the Mother of the Savior, the Mother of God, Pray often. Fare well." [...] "This stream is reserved for me, Good evening." "Push your hands into the water." "I am the Virgin of the poor." "This spring is reserved for all the nations - to relieve the sick." "I shall pray for you
March 29 – Monday of Holy Week Protected by the watchful eyes of Our Lady My aunt Marguerite was a very pious and truly charitable woman. I remember that when I visited her, she would often invite me to [...] meet her, or our maternal grandmother who died when I was 10 (I am the eldest of 4 children). After the accidental death of our father when I was 6, she used to rent a small apartment to let us spend our [...] "I won't be back, you know… " My siblings and I have a fond memory of this adoptive grandmother. There is no doubt that the Virgin Mary, who always protected her, welcomed her at her passing and took her
Reconciler of Sinners of La Salette (France, 1846) The words of Heaven are not merely words (I) In a letter dated December 26, 1870, Melanie Calvat, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared on the mountain of La Salette [...] agitated, doing and undoing; one sees the jealousy of some, the ambition of others, etc. And all this in a single word that escapes from the lips of the Virgin Mary, who makes hell tremble. Yes, if these people [...] spirit of the scenes that are shown: that is, if it is a sad scene, one is sad, if it is a happy scene, one is happy, one feels joy. One sees plots being made; one sees kings of the Earth, each of whom has
6 – Black Virgin of Mende (France, 1857) – Ingolstadt apparition to Father Jakob Rem (Germany, 1604) The Black Madonna of Mende Mende, in the department of Lozère and of the region of Occitanie in southern [...] lists the relics embedded in her back: “some hairs of the Virgin Mary, pieces of her clothing and her tomb, fragments of the true cross, as well as of saints Peter, Paul, Andrew, Martial, Dennis, and James [...] was during the Wars of Religion that she lost baby Jesus and her hands. Her survival was celebrated with a solemn coronation in 1894 on August 15th, the feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, a national
"We declare and confirm that the Virgin Mary Mother of God, under the title of her Assumption into heaven, has been regularly chosen as the principal patroness of all France before God." Dominique Ponnau [...] extended to the whole of France, which, on the day designated for its commemoration, August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, organized, first in each church, then in the streets of the towns and villages [...] (and later by his successors). In 1922, the first year of his pontificate, Pope Pius XI proclaimed Our Lady of the Assumption the principal patroness of France. In his apostolic letter "Galliam, Ecclesiae
Here, a statuette of Mary brought back from Medjugorje has wept tears of blood, like in Akita, Japan (1973) and Civitavecchia (Italy, 1995). Another lachrymation happened with an image of Jesus The Divine [...] Divine Mercy in the house of the visionary. The messages Gisella received from God the Father, Jesus and the Virgin Mary allude to: - a new disease would emerge from China (message of September 28, 2019) - [...] "Children, this is the great test of Faith. I say to you, as Mother of my children priests, always be obedient to the Church, but be on your guard, for when the Consecration of the Eucharist disappears, so
March 14 - Our Lady of Kostroma or Fedor (Russsia) The Silence of the Holy Family (I) Tradition tells us that the three inhabitants of the Holy House of Nazareth almost never spoke. The sweet heavenly [...] where the winds of the Alps howl through the corridors and shake the windows, while the rest of the house is quiet as a tomb. The words of Jesus were very rare, which is the reason why Mary kept them in her [...] we could believed to be a part of the life of the Holy Family, took place merely in our imagination, they did not exist. Silence reigned there deeper than in a loneliness of tears or a Cistercian monk’s
