his life were dedicated to the faith, to the love of God and to submission to his divine Will. The Marie de Nazareth Team Source: Collection of Marian Stories [...] December 12th, the priest returned, and this time insisted on being let in. After a few minutes of merely polite conversation, Mr. Joly suddenly told the priest: "Father, would you be so kind as to give [...] a calmness, an inner joy that I have never known." The priest began to pray ardently to the Virgin Mary. Grace was making its way into the man’s heart, so he didn’t want to leave without hearing Mr. Joly’s

something very unusual in a mere village. The edifice has inspired many French writers, like Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and Paul Claudel. The pilgrimage to Notre Dame de l’Epine was especially popular [...] of the Assumption of Mary, patroness of the Shrine. Adapted and translated from: Fr René Laurentin and Patrick Sbalchiero Excerpt from Dictionnaire encyclopédique des apparitions de la Vierge [...] village! There is historical evidence of an early chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Thorn ( Notre Dame de L'Épine ) in the French region of Champagne, before it was replaced in 1405 by a larger one to accommodate

According to them, only tangible realities existed. God, the soul, and the spiritual world were merely products of our imagination. Carrel, however, wanted to scientifically study what was happening in [...] which Carrel accepted to do. The friend especially recommended a young dying patient of his called Marie Ferrand. The trip was very difficult. Dr. Carrel had to give the patient injections at night, and [...] her pulse was normal again. "It was 2:40 pm,” Carrel noted. “At three o'clock, my doubts were gone: Marie Ferrand was healed." "I began to walk around like a crazy person, repeating to myself: I saw a miracle

Virgin Mary since his radical conversion one morning in April 1984 in Rome, one of the tens of thousands, invited by Pope John Paul II to launch the World Youth Day rallies. While he was in Rome merely to [...] Le père Lamy, prêtre et mystique (Father Lamy ? Priest and Mystic) and The Secret of Mary by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, which he found at first "inconsumable" and "incomprehensible." But he spent [...] He was a Man of God (I) Edmond Fricoteaux, founder and president of the Confraternity of Notre-Dame de France (Our Lady of France), was at the origin of a movement of Pilgrim Virgins, which spread into

lly also at that grotto there was a wooden statue to this (Pagan) virgin. The shrine of Notre Dame de Sous-Terre, is built on what was probably the oldest dedicated shrine to Our Blessed Lady anywhere [...] They instinctively knew that this would be the one true God who would prove their old gods to be mere idols, and so they ordered a statue of this unknown virgin and child to be sculpted and placed on [...] ancient shrine there. The Christian missionaries converted the shrine into one dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. All down the centuries, through building, fires, and rebuilding of the several churches