June 9 - Our Lady, Virgin Mother of Grace I Supported the Early Church and I Will Support the Church until the End of Time (II) At 10 years of age, John Claude Courveille suffered from small pox, which [...] the salvation of souls. He only thought about becoming a priest and to busy himself, by the exercise of sacerdotal zeal, to realize his triple vow. John Claude renewed his promise to Mary in 1812, at the [...] the foot of the same altar, where he received an interior message of which there are several versions. According to the version transmitted by the Venerable John Claude Colin, founder of the Marists Fathers

10th feast of Our Lady of Loreto -patroness of air travelers - to all calendars and liturgical books for the celebration of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. Putting the celebration of the feast day [...] January 9 – Virgin of the Annunciation (Italy, 1490) - Pauline Jaricot (d. 1862), foundress of the Work for the Propagation of the Faith, and Living Rosary A new Marian feast: Our Lady of Loreto Pope Francis [...] virtues of the perfect disciple of the Gospel, the Virgin Mother, who, in conceiving the head of the Church also accepted us as her own,” the decree said. The decree, dated Oct. 7th, feast of Our Lady

place at the end of the General Audience on October 30, 2019, and Pope Francis blessed the two images of Our Lady of Lujan. The original statue of this Name of the Virgin Mary, Patroness of Argentina, will [...] Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint George in Aldershot, England. The image of the Madonna of Lujan, which presided over the papal audience, is a copy of the 1630 original of the statue of the Madonna of Lujan [...] in April of 1982, they took the original copy of the statue of the Madonna of Lujan of 1630, which is in the Basilica of Lujan in Argentina. The Argentine troops left the image in the church of Port Stanley

Lady of Good Help (Nantes, France) When the law violates the rights of the child, it is time to pray to Our Lady Several countries around the world have already passed laws permitting the use of Medically [...] recently approved the use of MAP for single people and lesbian couples. This is the first step in a serious revolution in the law of filiation that deliberately deprives the child of a father and calls into [...] rights of the unborn child, many initiatives are emerging to try to revisit such unfair laws. In France, among other initiatives, the diocese of Toulon organized on September 26, 2019, a vigil of prayer

intact, though evidently scarred. Father spoke of God’s boundless love for each person from the moment of conception and of the grave harm of abortion and of the need for God’s mercy and forgiveness if one [...] Vanier by a priest who was on pilgrimage with a replica of an icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, or, “the Black Madonna.” Father Peter West, of H.L.I., had begun the pilgrimage two years earlier and was making [...] 15 – Our Lady of Kiev (Ukraine) Those were tears of healing (I) Last winter, while in jail (in Vanier, Quebec), I heard from a friend, a priest in Poland, that there was the possibility of a visit to Vanier

September 14 - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Princess Grace of Monaco featured in a film about the Rosary On September 14, 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco lost her life in a car accident. The [...] saddened by the tragic death of this great lady, with a noble heart and soul matching her royal standing. In 1956, when the "Princess of Hollywood" married Prince Rainier of Monaco, she interrupted her [...] recitation of the Rosary: "Your Highness, a poor Irish priest is asking Grace to do this favor for the Queen of the Rosary." Grace couldn't say no to her old friend, and after an absence of more than 25

and a picture of Our Lady of Fatima to bring to the Patriarch of Moscow. I did so and the Patriarch accepted it. Then, in 1996, we started a pilgrimage for all of Russia with Our Lady of Fatima. I met [...] every 13th of the month, there is a torchlight procession and prayer. For us Catholics during the Soviet regime, the message of Fatima was a source of hope. Everything was dark, but Mary had said, "My [...] converted." The officials who signed the end of the Soviet Union on December 8, 1991, were probably not aware of the great significance of that day: it was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception!" Excerpt from

October was the month of the Rosary, a beautiful prayer that we address to the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior Jesus Christ. Why not pick up our rosaries and meditate on the mysteries of Jesus' life? On Sunday [...] the feast of All Saints, let us pick up our rosaries” "Our beautiful France is again partially shutting down. But Life goes on. Its source is the Heart of Jesus, from which flow so many graces of love and [...] Sunday, November 1, we contemplate the lives of the saints, those brothers and sisters of ours who conformed their lives to the Gospel. They loved God and their neighbor. They drew their strength from

and Child of Trapani The Madonna and Child of Trapani is venerated in a chapel of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Santuario dell’ Annunziata) in Trapani, Sicily, some 45 miles west of Palermo [...] Palermo. The work of an 8th-century Cypriot sculptor, the original statue seems to have remained in Jerusalem until the failure of the Seventh Crusade (13th c.), when one of the Knights Templar sailed for Italy [...] the church of the Carmelite convent outside the city walls, there was no doubt that this place—and no other—had been chosen by the Virgin Mary. The statue is still there today, in the church of Santissima

lifted the spirit of Vienna and managed to convince the King of Poland, John III Sobieski, to come to the rescue of the capital, with his small army of only 40,000 men. The capital had been under siege since [...] to the altar of Saint Peter." In August 1683, an Italian Capuchin and great mystic, Fr. Marco d'Aviano (beatified by Saint John Paul II) was appointed grand chaplain of all the armies of Europe. He lifted [...] III Sobieski and Duke Charles of Lorraine attacked the Ottomans at dawn on September 11th. The women and children prayed in the churches, imploring the help of the Virgin Mary. That same evening, the Grand