which in the past had already proved its worth. He decided to promote again the Rosary of St Dominic and St Pius V. For this reason, in his encyclical of September 1, 1883 ( Supremi Apostolatus Officio [...] Catholic world, to be celebrated with special reverence and solemnity. And he asked that from October 1st to November 2nd, fervent recitation would be made of at least five decades of the Rosary, followed

prompted the revival of the shrine after he restored the small church and placed some relics of St Francisco and St Jacinta inside the altar, thus establishing a spiritual connection with the 100 th anniversary [...] Pius IX granted permission for the crowning of Our Lady of Fresneau in 1855, a petition supported by St John Vianney, the Curé of Ars. The current bishop of the diocese, Bishop Pierre-Yves Michel, recently

Zélie Martin: A path to holiness It was through a novena that St Zélie Martin discovered her professional calling, and that her daughter St Thérèse later received the grace of seeing the Blessed Virgin [...] enthroned in their house and it was before her that the family would gather to pray. The parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux, Louis and Zélie were the first couple to be canonized together, on October 18, [...] fraternal charity. Theirs was an ecclesial holiness: through participation in parish life and formation (St Vincent de Paul Conferences, Catholic Circles, Propagation of the Faith...) and through the practice

October 4 - Saint Francis of Assisi The first Marian shrine in the United States St Augustine, in the northeast of Florida, proudly lays claim to being the oldest European settlement on what is nowadays [...] European-founded town in the United States. It is not at all strange, then, that on the grounds of St Augustine’s Mission of the Name of God (one of the first churches in what would later become part of [...] throughout Europe, specially after the Crusaders returned from the Holy Land. Spanish settlers who came to St Augustine in the 1600s brought with them their devotion to Nuestra Senora de la Leche (Our Lady of

find the first mention of the expression "Mary, Mother of the Church"? Two Church Fathers, St. Augustine and St. Leo the Great, give us the first glimpses of it. The first affirms that Mary is "the mother [...] than the Church, who was born from Mary's womb when her head, the Christ, was born." He also cites St. Hilary of Poitiers who, in the fourth century, "emphasizes the link between the birth of Christ from [...] Church has her origin in Bethlehem, for she began to exist in Christ" (Tractatus super Psalmos). For St. Ambrose, the Church was mystically born from the Virgin's womb when she gave birth to the incarnate

(France) The Benedictine Order and the Virgin Mary The Order of St. Benedict (O.S.B.), better known as the Benedictine Order, was founded in 529 by St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547) at Mount Cassino in Italy. [...] superficial religiosity. In this light one can understand better the expression that Benedict borrowed from St Cyprian and summed up in his Rule (IV, 21), the monks' programme of life: "Nihil amori Christi praeponere" [...] lived in constant and profound communion with Christ. Let us invoke her intercession, together with St Benedict's, so that in our time too the Lord will multiply men and women who, through witnessing to

these days the seven Paters, &c. St Simon cured several sick persons by giving them the scapular; the reputation of which miracles moved Edward I., King of England, St Louis of France, King of France, [...] Mother of God in a vision to establish the wearing of the brown scapular as an assurance of salvation. St Simon, soon after he was promoted to the dignity of general, instituted the confraternity of the Scapular

their sins , says the bishop of the diocese of Kribi. The Brotherhood of St Mary, better known as "Ekoan Maria," of the parish of St Theresa of the Child Jesus in the district of Newtown (city of Kribi), [...] Mary’s virtues In Kribi, a small town in southern Cameroon, during the Easter vigil at the parish of St Theresa of the Child Jesus, Bishop Damase Zinga Atangana urged the faithful to transform the resurrection

these days the seven Paters, &c. St Simon cured several sick persons by giving them the scapular; the reputation of which miracles moved Edward I., King of England, St Louis of France, King of France, [...] Mother of God in a vision to establish the wearing of the brown scapular as an assurance of salvation. St Simon, soon after he was promoted to the dignity of general, instituted the confraternity of the Scapular

large group of nuns left New Orleans for Cuba in 1803, Mother St Andre Madier, one of the seven nuns who remained, appealed to her cousin, Mother St Michel Gensoul, an Ursuline nun who had been exiled in M [...] Montpellier, France, during the reign of terror. Mother St Michel was a remarkable woman of great talent and interior piety. Only the Pope, then a prisoner of Napoleon, could give a nun permission to leave [...] leave her convent. One day while praying before a statue of the Blessed Mother, Mother St Michel was inspired to say, "O most holy Virgin Mary, if you obtain a prompt and favorable answer to my letter,