Holy Mother of God appeared to Saint Dominic in 1214 after he had spent three days and nights in continual prayer and penance in a forest near Toulouse. The Virgin said to him: "Do you know which weapon [...] 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
said: “I’d say three Our Fathers, two Hail Marys and hope to God that I’m going to win, that’s if I hadn’t trained. If I had trained I’d say an Our Father and that was it, I’m all right. I always pray for [...] prayed before a fight and I could never bring the rosary beads in with me so I just decided one day I’ll get them tattooed on me so it saves me having to carry them all the time and losing them,” he said
his Passover. St. Ignatius of Antioch already bears witness to this connection: "Mary's virginity and giving birth, and even the Lord's death escaped the notice of the prince of this world: these three [...] n accomplished in God's silence People are sometimes troubled by the silence of St. Mark's Gospel and the New Testament Epistles about Jesus' virginal conception. Some might wonder if we were merely dealing [...] conception of Jesus met with the lively opposition, mockery or incomprehension of non-believers, Jews and pagans alike; so it could hardly have been motivated by pagan mythology or by some adaptation to the
Angelo Iannuso and Antonina Giusto. The 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 [...] including well-known atheist Dr. Michele Cassola who chaired the Scientific Commission, saw the tears and became important eyewitnesses. Chemists collected 1 cubic centimeter of the liquid in a test tube for [...] 1953, all the commission’s scientists signed a report acknowledging the reality of the phenomenon and their incapacity to find a scientific explanation. On December 12, 1953, the episcopal conference of
of the Oratory, fell very seriously ill. He received the last sacraments and was expected to die at any time. But his superior and friend was Saint Philip Neri, who had a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin [...] Savior and his Blessed Mother, asking them for his recovery in these terms: "Lord, give me Baronius! Give him back to me, I desire it, I want it!" Since Jesus refused, he turned to his Mother. Mary interceded [...] illness. In fact, he recovered on the same day. In his Annales ecclesiastici , he writes about the life and teachings of his beloved spiritual father, Saint Philip Neri. R. F. Rohrbacher, historian From Le Chapelet
Church follows Mary to the mountains and goes with her to meet the living. She visits women and men and, beyond their apparent sterility, she is on the lookout for what is being born and what is possible [...] in them. The Marian Church rejoices and sings. Instead of bemoaning her fate and the world's woes, she marvels at what is beautiful on earth and in the human heart. And she sees God’s work everywhere. The [...] on the roadside, wounded by life, she is seized by compassion. And with infinite tenderness, she tends to his wounds. She is the safe and ever-open harbor, the refuge of sinners, mater misericordiae ,
miraculously appeared on a rock cliff in Colombia. This image depicted the Virgin Mary giving a friar’s cord to Saint Francis and a rosary to Saint Dominic. Mystified by its appearance, the people of Colombia [...] into the rock and determined that the image appearing on the surface of the rock goes to a depth of at least 3 feet into the rock itself! This famous image now has a shrine built around it and has been declared
small and the population wanted to build a bigger one. In order to transport the stones from the opposite bank of the river, the Saint Lawrence needed to be frozen, yet the winter was too mild and the ice [...] building was completed, the little old church was no longer used, and Fr. Desilets kept his promise by dedicating it to the Virgin Mary.
God, be humble, simple and small and let yourselves be guided by me, your heavenly Mother, for I have only one desire and one goal, to bring you into eternal bliss to my Son and to God... " Message of [...] a man and said to him: "I am waiting at the gates of Germany, weeping as Jesus wept over Jerusalem... " And finally, in 1999, she appeared to three young women, Marion Gutman, Christine Neg and Judith [...] For a time I will not be seen again. However, I will lead you by thought and perhaps by locutions: this is in God's hands and I cannot yet say. The new time of which I speak will come much, much later
more hideous than these foul and muddy waters. But what astonished the saint most was to see multitudes of men, women, and children who continually threw themselves into it and seemed to enjoy it. What do [...] do these unfortunates eat, and how can they live for a second in that place? Anselm exclaimed, profoundly shocked. A voice answered him: "They feed on this muck and delight in it. This river that you see [...] Saint Louis de Montfort” (1), who recommended taking 30 days to prepare for this act of consecration and 9 to say "Goodbye to the world," we find this passage on Saint Anselm that sheds light on what "the
