May 25 - Our Lady of the Sea (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, virgin, Carmelite How the Virgin Mary saved my dad’s life in a concentration camp "During the Second World War, my [...] fighters. As a great lover of the Virgin Mary, he prayed his rosary a lot. His mother, of whom he was the only son, had no news of him but, trusting in Mary, she continued to believe in his return by [...] house, which happened to have a small niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary. When my father saw the statue, he cried out inwardly, "Mary, save me!" At that very moment, the heavy stone weighed nothing! My

April 30 - Virgin Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (Luxembourg) - Our Lady of Africa (Algiers, Algeria, 1876) A novena to Our Lady brings a woman back to life In 1987 my mom suffered a stroke; she was 74 [...] because your mother is saved!" Mom died 20 years later, at the age of 94. René Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth

- Pius XII establishes the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1944) "If you do what I tell you, many souls will be saved" In 1917, Mary said to the children of Fatima (Portugal): "You have seen hell [...] the subject of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Sister Lucia (one of the three visionaries of Fatima) wrote: "The holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary love and desire this devotion, because They use it

Christ Crucified and to Mary at the foot of the Cross! May God help this magnificent community of Marian Sisters who still face many obstacles today in Hungary; let us pray to Mary that she may protect them [...] February 17 - The Seven Founding Saints of the Order of Servants of Mary (Servites) - Saint Maximilian Kolbe is arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz (1941) The Marian Sisters, a blessing for Hungary [...] having to swim upstream. When our children were born, we had them baptized, and we consecrated them to Mary. God chose three of them to serve Him: one became a priest, the other two are religious. All the others

February 2 - Purification of Mary and The Presentation of Our Lord Mary's emotion at hearing Simeon's prediction In this excerpt from Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as Revealed to Me (1) vol.1, the author [...] on a stick. He must be very old, I would say over eighty. He goes near Mary and asks Her to give him the Child for one moment. Mary satisfies him, smiling. Simeon, whom I always thought belonged to the [...] it is. Mary and Joseph smile and so do all the others who praise the beauty of the Child. I hear the words of the holy old man and I see the astonished gaze of Joseph, the deeply moved look of Mary as well

Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary What is the future "Age of Mary"? Pope St. John Paul II commented on St. Louis de Montfort's writing about the End Times: "St. Louis-Marie contemplates this eschatological [...] that the expression "Age of Mary" must be interpreted: "When will come that happy time and that age of Mary, when many souls chosen and obtained from the Most High by Mary, losing themselves in the abyss [...] of her interior, will become living copies of Mary, to love and glorify Jesus Christ? " (TD 217) This " Age of Mary " is a time when, on the one hand, Mary will have made herself known (she bursts forth

January 27 - Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Coptic Marian Feast of the Dormition St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Most Holy Rosary This year marks the 20th anniversary of the apostolic [...] Luminous Mysteries. He additionally teaches, “With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love

sanctity, declaring her “Venerable”: “It is certain that the Servant of God, Edel Mary Quinn, a secular virgin of the Legion of Mary practiced to a heroic degree the Theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity [...] December 15 - Our Lady of Lepanto ( Italy) - Melanie Calvat, visionary of La Salette (d. 1904) - Mary Mediatrix Venerable Edel Quinn: “How could we not trust Our Lady!” Edel Quinn was born on the feast [...] At this time the spiritual side of her life was becoming more dominant. She joined the Legion of Mary in Dublin. Edel’s destiny was to be linked to the Legion perhaps more than she knew. In 1932 when

December 17 - The first church dedicated to Mary (Rome, Italy) Like a mother, Mary never forgets her children Although the Guadalupana pilgrimage that usually draws thousands was virtual this year, Francisco

December 19 - Saint Mary of Remedies (Portugal) The Rosary can change the course of history The Virgin Mary, during her apparitions, encouraged the world to say this prayer: "Say the Rosary every day to