which Pope John Paul II called "fruit of holiness". Fruits of the joyful mysteries The fruit of the 1st joyful mystery (the Annunciation to Mary by the angel Gabriel and the Incarnation of Christ (Lk 1: [...] Jesus in the Temple (Lk 2: 40-51): zeal in responding to God's call. Fruits of the luminous mysteries 1st mystery : the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan (Mt 3: 13-17): the state of grace; 2nd mystery : the Wedding
s, with sincere souls, He will forgive you. I, your Mother, through the intercession and agency of St. Michael, want to tell you to amend your ways. You are now being given the last warnings. I love you
organizers believe that praying the Rosary in public makes it far more effective. Mary “ communicated to St. Louis de Montfort that public prayer is far more powerful than private devotion, ” McCrystal said
us. St Angela, favored with the choicest gifts of God from thy infancy, Pray for us. St Angela, who didst give thyself to the practice of all the virtues from thy tenderest years, Pray for us. St Angela [...] purity, Pray for us. St Angela, who by thy love for holy purity, didst merit to receive thy name, Pray for us. St Angela, who from childhood found thy delight in solitude, Pray for us. St Angela, who led an
half of them of Greek origin, half Gallo-Roman; among them were St Blandina and St Pothinus, first Bishop of Lyons, sent to Gaul by St Polycarp about the middle of the second century. The letter addressed [...] literature; it is the baptismal certificate of Christianity in France. The successor of St Pothinus was the illustrious St Irenæus (d. 202). [...] (Lyons, France, 1643) Our Lady of Fourvieres Our Lady of Fourvieres, a sanctuary dating from the time of St Pothinus, erected on the site of a temple of Venus, is a popular place of pilgrimage in the diocese
Blessed Virgin, St Joseph, and St John the Evangelist appeared in a blaze of heavenly light at the south gable of the Church of St John the Baptist. Behind them and a little to the left of St John was a plain [...] with her eyes and hands raised to heaven. St Joseph stood on Our Lady's right. He was turned towards her as if paying her respect. His robes were also white. St John was on Our Lady's left. He was dressed
revealed to St Bridget that no sinner in the world is so great an enemy to God that if he has recourse to her and invokes her aid, he does not return to God and is not restored to His favor. (St Alphonsus [...] July 23 - Saint Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373) "Revelations" of the Virgin Mary to Saint Bridget St Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373) received extraordinary "Revelations" from the Lord, who nevertheless told [...] are dictated by divine science." By the mid-fourteenth century, the Blessed Virgin had already told St Bridget about her Immaculate Conception: "The truth is that I was conceived without original sin" (Book
such as St Bernard of Clairvaux. St Bernard was a devout Cistercian monk during the 12th century who had a deep love of the Virgin Mary. According to various medieval stories of his life, St Bernard had [...] had a vision of the Virgin Mary. Author Richard Storrs recounts the story in his book about St Bernard. The Holy Virgin had appeared to him, attended by saints, in his sore sickness, and with gentle touch [...] cherubs surround her in an effulgence of heavenly glory. This episode is often called “The Lactation of St Bernard,” and is usually depicted as a stream of milk going into Bernard’s mouth, though sometimes
the county of Velay, and how, at the request of St. Martial, built a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary on Mount Anicius. The 7th successor of St. George, St. Vosy, had the first cathedral built in the town [...] built on Mount Anicius, which thus became one of the oldest shrines dedicated to the Mother of God.& St. George, the evangelizer of the Velay region believed to have been one of the seventy-two original [...] Pope, who encouraged him. Scutarius, a young Roman senator, was to be the architect of the cathedral. St. Vosy was apprised in a vision that the angels themselves had dedicated the cathedral to the Blessed
Virgin Mary to lose her virginity, so his resurrection did not break the seals of the tomb. St. John Chrysostom (1) St. John Chrysostom (+ 407) was Archbishop of Constantinople. He is considered one of the [...] from all eternity to save by your mercy those whom your Son's justice can no longer save, " wrote St. John Chrysostom to the Virgin Mary. She is obviously not more merciful than her Son, but she participates [...] virgin land. A virgin drove us out of paradise; thanks to another virgin we have found eternal life. St. John Chrysostom (1) As he was born from the inviolate womb of the Virgin, so he rose from the closed
