June 20 - Milon, monk of Abbey Saint-Amand, poet, hagiographer, musician and illuminator You Found the Key O Blessed Virgin, you opened the doors to paradise that Eve had closed by picking the forbidden
June 28 - Saint Irenaeus of Lyons Take Me As Your Servant! O very tender Virgin and Mother of the Savior of all Times, take me as your servant starting from this very day and for ever more. From now on
June 6 - Saint Marcellin Champagnat, Priest and Founder of the Marist Brothers The Memorare in the Snow Saint Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers, had great confidence in the Blessed Virgin
May 22 - Saint Rita of Cascia (1377-1457) The Church “Looked At” Jesus through Mary In their midst Mary was “devoted to prayer” as the “mother of Jesus” (cf. Acts 1:13-14), the mother of the Crucified
May 16 - Saint Simon Stock (d.1265) The Blessed Virgin’s Brown Scapular Simon Stock was a Carmelite friar who led his order in its development from a hermit order into a mendicant one, similar to the
May 20 - Saint Bernardino of Siena (1340-1444) - Our Lady of Graces (Cuneo, Italy, 1537) Mary’s Greatness and Holiness Saint Bernardino of Siena was a popular preacher, attentive and sensitive to the mentality [...] Calvary and her Assumption into Heaven make Mary the human being nearest Christ and most like Him. The saint speaks of the Virgin’s holiness with unbounded admiration. From her birth, he holds, the Lord gave
May 6 - Feast of Our Lady of Saint John (Italy, 1658) Extraordinary Apparitions in Zeitoun, Egypt (II) The apparitions of the Blessed Virgin were indeed visible to many people, for long periods of time
May 1st - Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker Mary’s Husband, the Carpenter Leo XIII wrote, "Joseph, of royal descent, united in marriage with the most sublime and saintly of women, the putative father of
May 2 - Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church (+ 373) Who Equals Her Greatness? O noble Virgin, you are truly great above all greatness! Who equals you in greatness? What can equal you,
of the Treatise on The True Devotion of Mary in 1842, found “in a trunk” according to a prophesy (Saint Louis Grignion de Monfort) The Conversion of Robert Hossein As unlikely as it may seem, the French
