Lourdes The Virgin Mary said to her: "Your parents need you." In 1876, a French domestic servant named Estelle Faguette, dying of tuberculosis at age 33, in Pellevoisin (France), wrote a letter to the

throwing large rocks in the sea for more than two centuries. The church and the island of the same name were completed and opened to pilgrims in 1630." He adds: "The Virgin Mary is a very important saint

of the Marian Chapel In 1638, near the southern France town of Castellane lived a 9-year old boy named John Latil, who was deaf and mute from birth and had never walked. His father, Lucretius Martin, heard

before his death in 1992 at the age of 83, but in 2017, Pope Francis moved him closer to sainthood by naming him as ‘Venerable.’ The Journal

like his knee injury of February 12, is a way of living his faith: "I went to the Good Mother (the name given to the Virgin Mary in Marseilles) when I signed up with the OM (Olympique de Marseilles Club)

seminary director had a passion for Mary. This priest, now passed away, had a deep influence on me. His name was Otho Fernandes Loures. He strongly encouraged us in our devotion to Mary, prompting us to use

April 4 – Blessed Francisco of Fatima (d. 1919) Impressed by their courage, I began to think My name is Jean-Pierre, I am married, the father of three, and grandfather of three. I was baptized and confirmed

Our Lady of Alet began in the 12th century following an apparition of the Virgin Mary to a farmer named Raymond. The first chapel was visited by Saint Dominic, the famous founder of the Order of Friars

of the Mother of God before whom he sang and meditated, is called Panagia Koukouzelissa, after the name of her beloved singer. Her feast is celebrated on October 1st, the same day as her hymnographer’s

shrine in Yaoundé, Cameroon The opening ceremony of a new diocesan Mary Mediatrix of Etoudi Shrine (named after a district of the city) took place on April 8, 2018, in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, in