could move them just as she could before her accident. She also joined her hands to thank the Virgin Mary for the miracle. On the same day she was cured, she gave birth to a boy who later became a priest

Japan) - Our Lady of Blaj (Romania) Joseph’s test (1) Since Joseph was just and unwilling to expose Mary, why had he a mind to put her away ? I give you on this point not my own opinion, but that of the

Journey was installed there by a Portuguese captain whose ship, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, escaped sinking during a violent storm in the Bay of Bengal. A ship's mast erected in front of the

Roses (Pellevoisin, France, 1876) The most needed mission in the Church Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of

still remains so simple and so calm that she does not think of any poor serving maid as beneath her. Mary’s heart lets God have His will with her and draws from it all only a good comfort, joy, and trust in

drafted by the Second Vatican Council. We find this short exhortation of the council Fathers to pray to Mary, Mother of God: “The entire body of the faithful pours forth instant supplications to the Mother of

on September 30, 1767: a girl who was deaf and dumb was cured following an apparition of the Virgin Mary there. The shrine differs from other basilicas in that it is very small, possibly the smallest basilica

need to listen to the pulse of this place to feel how the heart of the nation beats in the heart of Mary" (John Paul II, June 4, 1979).

Before the Church of the Third Millennium To contemplate the face of Christ, and to contemplate it with Mary, is the "program" which I have set before the Church at the dawn of the third millennium, summoning

across my ideas about her. In the first place, I would have shown how little is actually known about Mary's life. Of course, I believe that we must not say incredible or made-up ideas about her; for example