and Mafia Phenomena, on August 15th, when the Catholic Church marks the feast of the Assumption of Mary. In May, 1993, Saint John Paul II scrapped the prepared text of a speech in Agrigento to deliver a [...] on of life!” Sadly, the intersection between organized crime and veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not only confined to Italy. Adapted from Crux Now , August 2020
in the manger of Bethlehem. It highlights Our Lady’s maternity. At the center of the painting is Mary’s face, in an attitude of adoration, hands clasped together. On her chest we notice a white triang [...] distance behind them is Saint Joseph, dressed in a red cape with a candle in his left hand. Source: Marie de Nazareth Website
statuette of a woman with a child in her arms on the top of a rock. She brought the statue of the Virgin Mary home and put it in a trunk. The next morning, Juana went out again to find wood. When she arrived [...] years ago is now a basin of holy water where pilgrims fill bottles of water in the shape of the Virgin Mary. Jonathan Jiménez, July 2019 (Adapted from an article published in 2018)
(approved by Bishop Ito in 1984) In Japan, the Virgin in tears insisted tirelessly The apparitions of Mary in Japan in 1973 and those of Amsterdam in 1945 have one element in common: an established Eucharistic [...] calamities by offering to the Father the sufferings endured by the Son on the cross." Notre Histoire avec Marie
path back to his Mother in the sky, a path set out from his childhood. I understood the presence of Mary in the life of the pope, a witness he never ceased to give. From that moment, I recite the 15 mysteries [...] Rosary unites us with what we have in common — on our mission and purpose, on Jesus our Founder and Mary, our model. It also connects us to believers all over the world, as one army of prayer warriors under
guess what: on June 28, 2010, I actually celebrated my first Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux where I had lived for 5 years as a seminarian! I came [...] independence. During his life, he had conversations with St. Therese of Lisieux, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. His "colloquies" were published in the edition of his complete works. His cause of beatification
from Dinant-sur-Meuse. On the road between Foy and Dinant, Belgium, used to be a statue of the Virgin Mary placed in the hollow of an oak tree, to remind travelers to pray and as a sign of divine protection [...] build a chapel in memory of the shrine. This is when a miracle occurred. After praying to the Virgin Mary, an old man was cured of a painful and debilitating hernia. The canonical investigation ordered by
friends from Strasbourg, France, entered the Church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte. There the Virgin Mary appeared to him, her hands open and extended, motioning him to kneel. This apparition was officially [...] one side chapel had, if you will, gathered all the light. In the midst of this splendor, the Virgin Mary appeared standing on the altar. She was grandiose, brilliant, full of majesty and sweetness, just
France. On February 15, 1876, around midnight, 33-year old maid, Estelle Faguette, saw the Virgin Mary at her home, then fourteen more times up until December 8, 1876. As a sign of spiritual warfare, the
begin reciting the official prayer in preparation for the event. The theme of this next WYD will be: "Mary arose and left in haste" (Luke 1:39). Young people are called to "be light in the darkness of the
