June 15 – Feast of All the Churches of the Holy Land Our Lady of Wisdom regains "her" rightful place On March 25, 2021, feast day of the Annunciation, the parish council of Tavel (France) installed a new [...] new statue of Our Lady of Wisdom in their village. This project was made possible thanks to a broad appeal for donations to protect this heritage. The alcove where the statue was placed is on a street [...] street corner in the center of the village. Some years ago, the old alcove had been broken into and the original statue damaged. Thanks to donations, the alcove was restored and a new statue was purchased from
11 - Our Lady of Peace (Antipolo, Philippines) Philippes: Our Lady of Peace and Safe Journey in Antipolo City Antipolo City is located on a hill, 28 km from Manila, in the Philippines. It is home to a statue [...] statue of the Black Madonna, covered with a white mantle sewn with gold and precious stones. Mary has been venerated there since the early 17th century under the title of "Our Lady of Peace and Good Journey" [...] did not explode. Several churches were built to house the statue, each one destroyed over time in a fire or bombing, but each time, the statue of Our Lady miraculously remained intact. The latest was in
July 2 – Our Lady of Piat (Philippines) Our Lady of the Rosary, Philippines The Basilica of Our Lady of Piat is located on the outskirts of the city of Piat, in the province of Cagayan in the northern [...] work of evangelization had only begun 25 years earlier, the shrine had throngs of visitors. Our Lady of Piat was carried in procession to other cities, which is why she is also called Our Lady of the [...] friars brought a statue of the Black Madonna to the Philippines, known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. The statue was enthroned in Piat, in a small shrine, on the feast day of St. Stephen, December 26
October 3 - Our Lady of the Place (Italy, 1250) Our Lady of Pontmain Pontmain is a shrine of Our Lady, invoked under the title of Our Lady of Hope. In the darkest hours of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) [...] crucifix. 1) At Pontmain, Mary was a sign of hope in the midst of war. She spoke of her Son and renewed our hope. She invited us to joy and simplicity. 2) She gathered the whole parish around her, not only the [...] (1870-1871), Mary appeared to two boys (Eugene and Joseph Barbedette) as a lady dressed in a dark blue robe, sprinkled with stars, a crown on her head over a dark blue veil, and in her hands a red crucifix
e capital of Ivory Coast, 3 hours north of Abidjan, the economic capital, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is impressive in its pharaonic size and the obvious architectural similarities to Saint Peter's [...] November 15 – Our Lady of Piety (Byzantine Church) - Saint Albert the Great Our Lady of Peace Basilica, the largest Christian edifice in the world Located in Yamoussoukro, the political and administrative [...] the basilica. Set in predominantly Muslim West Africa, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace has become a major destination for pilgrims. Source: Aleteia
head of the statue of the Virgin Mary. To the "Our Father" were soon added the words of the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation, and this prayer took the name of "Psalter of Our Lady". The words of Elizabeth's [...] "psalter of Our Lady" In the early centuries, the Desert Fathers, who voluntarily lived in a "linguistic desert", practiced a repetitive form of prayer. They strung pebbles on a cord to keep track of the pace [...] pace and number of recitations of biblical passages. Later, people fashioned "prayer ropes" for the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, hence the first known name of the rosary in the West: the "paternostre"
and returned to Florence, Italy. Father Pallù told Vatican Radio that "I had moments of fear but I felt Our Lady’s help, as well as the help of other saints and of Carmen Hernandez (founder of the Neocatecumenal [...] convinced that God will destroy the work of the Devil. Another important thing to stress is this: the two kidnappings took place on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, October 13th." Adapted from: news [...] December 30 – Holy Mary of Saint Celsius (Italy, 1485) Kidnapped priest says “I had moments of fear but I felt Our Lady’s help” Father Maurizio Pallù, 63, an Italian missionary priest, was kidnapped in
October 22 - Our Lady of Kazan (1579, Russia) Our Lady of Kazan In 1579, the icon of Our Lady of Kazan was discovered by a young girl of ten, at the site of a house that had been destroyed in a fire, a [...] tradition recalls was revealed to her in a dream. The miraculous icon was travelling with the Russian troops when Moscow was liberated of its Polish invader at the end of the "Time of Trouble" in 1612.
August 12 - Our Lady of Rouen (France) Our Lady of Good Help A popular medieval story concerned a Flemish monk who was painting a picture of heaven and hell on the portals of his abbey. He was engaged [...] begged the monk to paint him as a young and handsome man. The monk refused and the angry Devil pulled away the scaffold on which the artist was working. But as the monk fell, a statue of the Virgin, in
ions of people in the Virgin's eyes. According to the phenomenon of Purkinje-Samson, the images are threefold-the reflection of the image, its size and orientation that are found in the glare of a real [...] Italy, 1903) Our Lady of Guadalupe's Eyes In 1951, an artist, Carlos Salinas Chavez, noticed a bearded man in the Virgin's right eye using a simple magnifying glass. Later examination of the eyes found [...] When light is approached, one sees the same reflections as on the human eye: the cornea, the edge of the pupil and the lens move when the light source is moved (a phenomenon that can be seen in the human
