1911, to the shrine of Our Lady of Mantara, south of Sidon, in the Greek-Melkite-Catholic archdiocese of Saida and Deir-Al-Kamar in Lebanon. In the evening, before going back down, they wanted to salute [...] June 12 - Mary proclaimed Queen of China in Zikawei (Shanghai, 1924) Lebanon: Our Lady of Waiting’s miraculous smile Several prominent figures from Saida, the Director of the Ottoman Tobacco Company, his [...] the grotto...when, to their delighted and astonished eyes, the image of the good Virgin smiled, probably to show how pleased and touched she was by their pious visit. She continued to smile like this for
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 school [...] 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 go to her church [...] church to pray the Rosary with a small group of friends, or to pray for someone who had just died, and when I spent the night, she made sure that I said my evening prayer. She never married, and raised
17 - The Humility of the Blessed Virgin Our Lady of Kophaza (I) Kophaza is a small, charming town south-east of Sopron, Hungary. The locality is quite well-known, first of all because of its Marian Shrine [...] Eleanor sought pleasure by admiring the beauty of nature and was accustomed to taking walks alone, or accompanied, near the edge of the woods. One day, she decided to venture into the woods alone. Eleanor was [...] shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin without asking themselves any questions about its origin that certainly deserves to be better known. In the seventeenth century, thanks to its large woods, Kophaza was
April 24 - Our Lady of Lujàn (Argentina) Our Lady of Lujan and her devoted guardian “I belong to Our Lady, and no one else.” These words were the defense posed by a black slave in Argentina when his owners [...] patroness of Argentina for over a century. The shrine is now visited by more than 5 million pilgrims each year. Our Lady of Lujan is a 14-inch-tall terracotta image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception [...] image available online of a side table in Francis’s quarters in the Vatican shows a small image of Manuel next to that of Our Lady of Lujan and a crucifix made with wood from one of the shipwrecked migrants’
17 - The Humility of the Blessed Virgin Our Lady of Kophaza (I) Kophaza is a small, charming town south-east of Sopron, Hungary. The locality is quite well-known, first of all because of its Marian Shrine [...] Eleanor sought pleasure by admiring the beauty of nature and was accustomed to taking walks alone, or accompanied, near the edge of the woods. One day, she decided to venture into the woods alone. Eleanor was [...] shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin without asking themselves any questions about its origin that certainly deserves to be better known. In the seventeenth century, thanks to its large woods, Kophaza was
July 21 – Feast of Our Lady of Einsiedeln Our Lady of the Hermits and Einsiedeln Abbey Einsiedeln is located in the heart of Central Switzerland close to Zurich. The Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln is the [...] dresses. "Engelweihe" is the feast of the dedication of the Chapel of Our Lady. It refers to a legendary event in the year 934, according to which Christ, in the company of many angels and saints, consecrated [...] Middle Ages the Chapel of Our Lady with the famous "Black Madonna" has been one of the most significant pilgrimage places in Europe. A monk called Meinrad came to this region to live as hermit. After his
March 28 – Our Lady of Bocciola (Italy, 1543) – Departure of the “Great Comeback” pilgrimage of Our Lady of Boulogne (France, 1938) Our Lady of Boulogne and the “Great Return” In the year 636, a small [...] The feast of Our Lady of Boulogne is celebrated on July 10, the date of the dedication of her new church in the year 1469 by Bishop Chartier of Paris. The confraternity of Our Lady of Boulogne was so [...] statue of Our Lady. As the people took hold of it to bring it to shore, a voice was heard saying, “I choose your city as a place of grace.” The citizens welcomed Mary to their city by erecting to her a
peaceful withdrawal of the Syrian occupation troops. In addition to the parallel of historical circumstances, the statue of Our Lady of Beshwet is a replica of the statue of the Virgin of Pontmain. This is [...] village of Beshwet wanted a special statue of the Virgin, and a Jesuit priest obtained a copy of Our Lady of Pontmain for them. Our Lady of Beshwet wears a gold crown and a blue star-spangled robe. She [...] January 17 – Our Lady of Pontmain (France, 1871) Our Lady of Pontmain (France) in Lebanon Pontmain is a small French village where the Virgin Mary appeared to some children with a message of prayer and
October 30 – Our Lady of Mondovi (Italy, 1540) Our Lady of Mondovi, the wounded Virgin The shrine of Vicoforte dedicated to the Virgin Regina Montis Regalis (Queen of Mount Royal), in the province of Cuneo, [...] Italy, is a famous church of Piedmont, near the town of Mondovi. Its construction followed an event that occurred in 1596. It was built on the site of a column supporting a statue of the Virgin and Child. [...] distracted hunter had hit the statue of the Virgin with his arrow, and this caused the statue to miraculously bleed. Understandably, the faithful started coming there to pray to the Virgin Mary. Later, a beautiful
September 13 – 6th apparition of Our Lady in Fatima announcing that Jesus would bless the world Our Lady of Cyclists Jean Robic, Louison Bobet, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Laurent Jalabert, Tom Boonen [...] another donated their jerseys to the Géou Chapel, also known as Our Lady of Cyclists, at the Bastide d'Armagnac (France). This chapel houses an astonishing collection of jerseys once worn by the greatest [...] decree of the sacred congregation of rites, the chapel became the national French shrine of cyclists. Seven days later, on a Pentecost Monday, the local bishop presided over the inauguration of Our Lady
