Jesse the Church Fathers came to see all plants and their burgeoning as signatures and symbols of Mary - applying to her the scriptural titles of Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley and Lily Among the Thorns [...] (Springtime's first flowers give thee honors). Then, with the 18th century re-burgeoning of devotion to Mary, the Church dedicated to her the entire springtime budding and flowering of plants of the month of

Saint Louis de Montfort. Adapted for A Moment with Mary from Pourquoi devenir chrétien? (Why become a Christian?) by Jeanne Tallier, in the Legion of Mary "L'Etoile" (Star) magazine, issue #162

a common desire to end their dispute amicably and to return home without going to Grenoble! Since Mary does not do things by halves, she arranged for them to providentially meet a certain monk, who in [...] other citizens and all those who expected the inevitable ruin of their families! Indeed, the Virgin Mary, venerated in her shrine of Bargemon, "doesn’t care any less about material goods than about those

Blood that we receive at the altar ... This Divine Body and Blood retains its maternal origin, from Mary. It was she who prepared this Body and Blood before offering them to the Word, as a gift from the [...] Priest and Victim. At the root of the Eucharist therefore we find the virginal and maternal life of Mary, her overflowing experience of God, and her journey of faith and love, which through the work of the

him to solicit the Blessed Virgin. Every morning, go pray to the Blessed Virgin, say a little Hail Mary, and ask her to help you to know her Son. I would tell him to read a passage from the Gospel, and [...] , without knowing that the town has a renowned religious shrine, since he had never heard of God, Mary or Jesus before. On the set of KTO (a French Catholic TV channel) he openly spoke about his conversion

of the Virgin Mary at Fatima in Portugal, repeatedly said that prayers and sacrifices offered for the conversion of sinners form the core of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Father Thomas

Reggio was always protected by Mary, who was invoked with faith, and whose image, in times of danger, was brought from her hermitage to the city. In 1577, the sacred image of Mary spoke to a humble friar to

entrusted France to the Virgin Mary in 1638, making her Queen of that country. In order to give a concrete expression to this commitment, the pilgrimage of the Virgin Mary was launched by Notre Dame de

women, gathered in the garden of the house of Nazareth: "I wanted you to be here to meet Mary. Many of you know Mary as the "mother"—some as "the spouse." But no one knows her as the "virgin." I want now

1426) A source of water would come out of the rock! In the north of Italy, near Vicenza, the Virgin Mary appeared to an old woman named Vincenza Parisi, on August 1, 1428, while the city, decimated by the [...] the first Sunday of the month we hear an average of 22,000 thousand confessions," the Servites of Mary explain. Their order has overseen the site with its magnificent views, since 1435. From an article