in one of his notebooks that in November 1922, Marthe Robin received the mystical “wound of Love.” This is his testimony: "In the early days of November 1922, Marthe was wounded by love in front of the altar [...] February 6 – Mater Pietatis (Italy) – Death of Marthe Robin, a French mystic and stigmatist (d. 1981) She cannot resist a child’s trust Father Faure (1873-1955), pastor of Chateauneuf-de-Galaure, a small village [...] altar of the Virgin Mary... Her whole life, her daily activities on the farm, became permeated with Marian grace." Faure also quotes Marthe speaking about the Blessed Virgin: "I really like to leave everything

beautiful clothes I was wearing. And that while one of us was reading the Act of consecration to the Blessed Virgin, I looked at the statue of Mary, and said to her: "I will most likely grow up to be a [...] December 20 – Our Lady of Folgoët (France) But despite all this, the Blessed Virgin has protected me At the beginning of the year 1923, a 16-year-old boy was admitted at the Montargis hospital in France [...] reconciled with the Lord." The young man lived a few more weeks, in great piety, and died the death of a saint. Excerpt from First Communion Retreat , by Arthaud In Le Chapelet des enfants (The Children’s

started in the evening of August 15, 2018, feast of the glorious Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and ended on October 7, 2018, feast of the Holy Rosary and anniversary of the Victory of Lepanto. These dates [...] the face of the many dangers threatening the world. They decided to launch a "Holy League of Nations" to raise a prayer of supplication from many countries. This prayer has taken the form of a 54-day novena [...] American organizers of Rosary Coast to Coast stated in a press release on July 3, 2018. Bree Dail, international coordinator of the Holy League of Nations, talks about the birth and the scope of the project:

February 24 –Our Lady of Sorrows (Italy, 1879) She lets herself be caught, trusting in God The Virgin loved to offer herself: to the God of her Fathers, as and better than the holy women of Scripture had done [...] thing—St Therese of Lisieux admired her for it. She resolutely wanted to remain a virgin, yet trustingly accepted to be given in marriage. Everything worked out all right in the end for Mary, thanks to the [...] the support of her fiancé who, like her, had offered himself fully to the same God of Israel. It came as a great surprise for him to learn from His mouth that the woman betrothed to him, or whom he chose

Romans who, by the power of iron, reduced all their adversaries to dust, before Israel was divided between the iron of Rome and the clay of Herod. The coming of the humble Virgin Mary opens the messianic reign [...] Immaculate Virgin of Sameiro (Portugal) - Saint John Damascene (d. 753) The prophet’s striking prophecy came to pass! The second prophecy for the time of Advent is found in the last book of the Old Testament [...] Testament, the book of Daniel. The book evokes, in chapter 2, king Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, in which he sees a rock breaking a great statue made of layers of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay. The king is troubled

and for thirty years I prayed to the Virgin Mary for his conversion. In 1917 my father fell seriously ill. One evening I begged him to receive the sacrament of the dying. He replied: "If it's so bad, okay [...] February 7 – Blessed Pius IX, the pope who proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (d. 1878) If your father asks for me, it must be serious! Mrs. Kronsteiner from Austria once told this true

for the spiritual care and direction of fellow pilgrims. In the meantime, millions of people make pilgrimages to this remote mountain village, where the messages of Mary continue to give hope and comfort [...] such matters, as well it should be, unless of course there is little doubt that an alleged apparition is contrary to the teachings of the Church. Furthermore, the apparitions in Medjugorje are still ongoing [...] final judgment until they have ceased. In other words the current position of the official Church concerning Medjugorje is a sort of "let's wait and see." The only restriction imposed on pilgrimages to Medjugorje

basilicas constructed on Golgotha, on the Mount of Olives, in Bethlehem, and also a church in Nazareth, on top of the Holy House of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The walls of this house are now in Loreto, Italy. *In [...] died, and she actually found the Cross of Jesus, which caused multiple miracles, as well as relics of the Passion. This we know from the writings of Saint Ambrose of Milan and Rufinus. She had basilicas [...] and the oppressed. One of her greatest joys as a mother was to see her son declare, by the Edict of Milan in 313, that the Christian religion was to be the official religion of the Empire. Helen asked

the coming of the Christ - who is God's virtue - than the one who has the honor to be called the Force of God? Because what is force, if it is not virtue? (...) If he is called the Force of God it is either [...] fiancé, this man of a humble and timorous conscience, although our evangelist does not specify this. Indeed, Gabriel says to him: "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife [...] to announce the coming of this force itself, or because he was meant to reassure a naturally timid, simple and modest virgin that would have perhaps been disturbed by the news of the miracle about to be

be coming up with some brilliant new insight into the life of Mary, or finding some kind of spiritual comfort in the familiarity of the lack of brilliant new insight, or what. And darn it, I always lose [...] way through a set of beads, though, so at very least it seemed like a rosary couldn’t hurt. We already go running together most days, so we decided to make a decade of the rosary part of the routine. Since [...] October 23 – Our Lady of Frassino (Lake Garda, Italy) Why not try praying the rosary? My husband and I agreed: … Saying a decade of the rosary together every day is changing our lives. Not drastically