beginning of March went by, but still the ice was not thick enough. So Fr. Luke Desilets, the parish priest, promised the Holy Virgin to dedicate the little old church to her if they managed to transport the

the name of their atheist Communist ideology, had set about shutting down seminaries and arresting priests, so many people under Communist rule began to participate in Catholic groups organized by lay people [...] joining the state-sanctioned Patriotic Association. In Syria, Islamist terrorists recently killed a priest who had remained with the persecuted Catholic population, although more than a million Christians

unfold in the hearts of those who let themselves be taken in by her call to reconciliation. The first priests missioned to the small village of Saint-Étienne-le-Laus from 1665 onwards testified to the graces [...] and the angels during the great difficulties she experienced: a 20-year persecution by Jansenist priests, calumnies of all kinds, and demonic attacks. Despite these great trials, she remained faithful and

the patron saint of sailors. We owe this holy presence in the town where the race started to the priest of the Sables d'Olonne. "It all began when I last visited the shrine. I was very impressed by all

became one of the apostles of Our Lady. The enthusiasm of this Indian community was so great that a priest was sent for to minister to them. The capuchin Brother Jose de Najera was given the charge of this

recognized the apparitions that started on April 2, 1968, in Zeitoun, a suburb of Cairo. Bishops and priests on the Board of Inquiry established by Pope Kyrillos VI authenticated the testimonies collected all

traveling around the country, going from diocese to diocese, from parish to parish, on the initiative of priests and the faithful carrying other images of the Mother of God of Jasna Gora. These Visitations are

not out to preach or teach, she seated not herself in the Apostolic chair, she took no part in the priest's office; she did but humbly seek her Son in the Holy Mass of those, who, though her ministers in

participate—in a totally unexpected way—in a prayer vigil in Paris with Father Suarez, a Filipino priest known worldwide for his gift of healing. When he touched Laetitia's tummy, she felt a soothing warmth

also leads us to his Mother."(John Paul II, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination, Paris 1996) Source: Marie Reine