first called the Virgin "Achyropoulete" ("Not made by man's hand"), then “Our Lady of Miracles,” the name that is still hers today. Her intercession has obtained many miracles for those who pray to her. The
of a Plan On March 25, 1945, the Virgin Mary appeared in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to a woman named Ida Peerdeman (d. 1996). This first apparition was followed by 56 others, intermittently between 1945
consecrated to the divine service. This church was dedicated on November 21, in the year 543, and named "New Church" to distinguish it from the old one in honor of the Nativity of Mary, the Probatica. In
one year after huge floods, but the place of the apparition became a place of pilgrimage under the name of "Our Lady of Coromoto." On March 1, 1942, the Venezuelan Episcopate, joined together in plenary
(Switzerland) Why I Love You O Mary Oh, I would like to sing, Mary, why I love you so Why your sweet name makes my heart throb Why the thought of your supreme greatness Could never bring fear to my soul.
a compassionate and pitying glance! Help us obtain the grace to persevere in faith; we invoke your name; we cannot doubt the efficaciousness of your patronage! Confident of your help, we pray, O Sweet Saint
scene, and she was a Queen upon her Son's right hand, not even then did she ask of Him to publish her name to the ends of the world, or to hold her up to the world's gaze, but she remained waiting for the
pilgrims and bring interior consolation. At the end of the symbolic journey, parents are asked to give a name to their unborn child and write it in a "Book of Life," so that local nuns and pilgrims can add them
Saint Langorius venerated in the churches of Crain and Escamps (France), it seems certain that the name actually refers to a local denomination of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, also known as Our Lady of
He created a second world - Paradise - for the Blessed. He created a third for himself, which he named Mary. Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) In The Secret of Mary, part 1: Necessity of having a true