Paul Buguet, born in 1843. The idea to pray for the souls of Purgatory was inspired by the Virgin Mary herself who, in May 1884, asked that priest to build a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Deceased
Paris on a main highway. 52,000 people, 25,000 subscribers, 7 bishops, the Nuncio and Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris, gathered there for the blessing of the statue on October 15, 1988.
on their heels as they were routed, shouting "Long live Jesus Christ! Long live the Blessed Virgin Mary!" This was on the 25th of August - the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
these hardened hearts for the Lord, preach from my Psalter." This is the way the most Holy Rosary of Mary came into being, which Saint Dominic used forthwith against the Albigensian heresy. Queen Blanche
Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort invites us, by the Marian Consecration, to imitate Jesus by taking Mary as our Mother, and by entrusting everything to her.
their knees and with tears streaming down their faces, bawling like children, they recited the Hail Mary over the ocean, and their prayers reached heaven. The rosary ended and the missionary spoke again:
Longo to the Countess of Fusco (1885) May Your Immaculate Steps Open the Way of Purity and Peace! O Mary, Immaculate Mother of Jesus, my tender Mother, Queen of the Holy Rosary, you who lowered yourself
full of water, transpierced by the sun. Her black eyes seem to quiver and shake when she spoke about Mary.
was able to do so. She had just finished reciting her rosary when the Blessed Virgin came to her. Mary looked around in silence before speaking, and then she said, "You deprived yourself of my visit on
Lady of Sorrows (Italy, 1892) - Canonization of Padre Pio (2002) Humanity is fundamentally feminine Mary’s very feminine "Here I am" – Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according [...] privileged "spokesperson," and this vocation of every woman is then perfectly fulfilled—how much so—in Mary’s "Here I am," in the name of all fundamental femininity. It is there to remind us all of our vocation
