ip with Our Blessed Mother Mary. As we grow up, the relationship with our earthly parents changes, but to Our Lady, we will always be her little sons and daughters. She will always be there to protect [...] August 1 - Saint Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists, Doctor of the Church (d. 1787) The Strength of Our Lady’s Protection When you were a child, and you would be playing outside, sometimes [...] back out into the world to conquer another day. Or maybe you remember trips to the store with your mom where you would pass something that you wanted so badly and you would turn to her, pleadingly. You would
June 9 – Immaculate Heart of Mary – Mary Mother of Grace (France) In Bahrain, Our Lady of Arabia In a few days, the first construction phase of a large cathedral, able to accommodate more than 2,000 faithful [...] The population influx is due to the need of a large workforce in this country that has built its wealth on oil. Our Lady of Arabia also has the ambition to become a center of spiritual formation. Priests [...] According to Bishop Camillo Ballin, Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia, the construction is expected to take four years. When completed in 2021, the cathedral will be placed under the protection of Our Lady
independence, the bishop of Oran, Bishop Bertrand Lacaste, donated the statue of Our Lady to the "Pieds-Noirs"(1) who had resettled in the region of Nimes (southern France) and wanted to perpetuate this devotion [...] (Germany) Put Our Lady up on top of that darn mountain! Twenty years after the French landed on the beaches of Sidi Ferruch, west of Algiers, in 1830, a plague struck the Algerian town of Oran. A terrible [...] They brought a statue of Our Lady with them. The intensified prayer had an immediate effect. Sheets of rain came pouring down on Oran, washing the streets, roofs and walls. The rush of water forced the putrid
September 19 - Our Lady of La Salette, Reconciler of Sinners (France, 1846) Young visionary's description of Our Lady The beautiful Lady stood up while we remained transfixed where we were. She said: “Come [...] children, don't be afraid. I am here to bring you some good news.” Fully reassured, we hurried over to her. The Lady's voice was similar to music. We got so close to her that another person would not have [...] mother beaten by her own children and who had escaped up to the mountains to sob her eyes out. The beautiful Lady was tall and seemed to be made of light. She was dressed like a local peasant with a long
17 - Our Lady of Pontmain (France) Our Lady of Hope ends a war During the Franco-Prussian War, Mary appeared to six children on January 17, 1871, in the village of Pontmain, France. She told them to pray [...] and consecrated in 1900. It was entrusted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. When they came to the United States, the Oblates founded a shrine for Our Lady of Hope in Lake Champlain, New York. Sources: [...] appearing unrolled beneath the feet of the Lady, so that eventually the phrase, "But pray, my children," could be read. Fr. Guérin then ordered that the Litany of Our Lady should be sung, and as this progressed
October 22 – Our Lady of Kazan (Russia) In October, Moscow celebrates Our Lady of the Iberians The Iberians here are not Spaniards, but Georgians who settled in the monastery of Iveron on Mount Athos. [...] The Iberians’ icon of the Mother of God dates at least back to the 9th century. It was hidden by a pious widow of the city of Nicaea, during the iconoclastic persecution of the reign of Emperor Theophilus [...] the door of the monastery. The Mother of God revealed to a Georgian monk, who had brought it to the church that she wanted to guard the monastery gate. Since then, the icon found at the entrance of the monastery
Aug 18 - Coronation of Our Lady of Liesse (France, 1857) Our Lady of Liesse In 1134, three brothers, knights from the French region of Laon, left on a voyage. The sultan of Egypt captured them and took [...] all agreed to have a chapel built at the site where they had woken up, in honor of Our Lady of Liesse. Since then miracles have been countless. Louis VII came as a pilgrim in 1146 and Our Lady of Liesse became [...] statue to her apartments, never taking her eyes off the statue while the knights cried out: Our Lady of Liesse! The following night, Ismenia heard the statue say: "Trust me, Ismenia! I have prayed to my Son
March 5 - Our Lady of the Miracle (Italy, 1440) Our Lady of Healing (II) One of these miracles involved a certain man who lived in the county of Kilkenny, whose arm had been withered from birth so that [...] that he was unable even to move it. One night, in a dream, it seemed as though the Mother of God appeared to him and suggested that he journey to Waterford and visit her image which was then preserved in [...] recommend his cure to God. The next morning the man and a considerable number of Catholics assembled in the oratory, where Reverend Fagan offered the Holy Sacrifice. At the moment of the Elevation, the
September 6 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1553) Mama Muxima, "Our Lady of the Heart" The pilgrimage to the Shrine of Muxima (Angola) takes place each year September 6-7. Our Lady of Muxima - the Angolans [...] origins go back to the construction of the Church of Our Lady of the Conception in the locality known as Muxima in 1599. This shrine was an early and important center of evangelization. Our Lady of Muxima was [...] the news of her miracles spread throughout the country, many forms of devotion to Mama Muxima were born, including regular pilgrimages. The most important of these, the pilgrimage of Our Lady of the Conception
March 5 - Our Lady of the Miracle (Italy, 1440) Our Lady of Healing (II) One of these miracles involved a certain man who lived in the county of Kilkenny, whose arm had been withered from birth so that [...] that he was unable even to move it. One night, in a dream, it seemed as though the Mother of God appeared to him and suggested that he journey to Waterford and visit her image which was then preserved in [...] recommend his cure to God. The next morning the man and a considerable number of Catholics assembled in the oratory, where Reverend Fagan offered the Holy Sacrifice. At the moment of the Elevation, the
