intended to start a prayer night on Mondays that would be led by the laity. This resonated with freshman Marie-Louise Hoffman, who said that the prayers for clergy and renewal of the Church need “to be led from

young wife was pregnant with their first child. For three days, the plaster sculpture of the Virgin Mary they had received as a wedding present and hung in their room, wept human tears. The Church received

of Lewis Hamilton’s religious devotion. An image of Pieta, Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of the dead Christ, is inked on his shoulder. Tattoos, though, are only the half

Baronius! Give him back to me, I desire it, I want it!" Since Jesus refused, he turned to his Mother. Mary interceded for him, so he knew at once that his prayer had been answered. At the same moment, Baronius

he did not invite you to dance? It is because of the scapular that you wore and that by devotion to Mary, you had kept as a safeguard." From Le Chapelet des Enfants (The Children’s Rosary)

Virgin in 1638. That his successor Louis XIV also consecrated the kingdom to Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, on March 19, 1661, is a lesser known fact. Three days after assuming power, on March 12th, Louis

but the apparition congratulated him on obeying his spiritual director. “This was indeed the Virgin Mary,” Father Neri declared. In l’Etoile Notre Dame #148, October 2006

his homily during the Mass of the translation of the icon Salus Populi Romani on January 28, 2018. Mary "is not a possibility among others offered by popular devotion; she is at the heart of the Christian

to "cleanse" a city of all its religious objects. They attempted to tip over a statue of the Virgin Mary, but couldn’t do it! It looked like a mysterious power kept her in place. Then one of them, driven

the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. Bodasiński explains the purpose of this action: "In Fatima Mary called mankind to pray the Rosary. We want to respond to that call. We feel that the world around