buildings, groups, movements, institutes of consecrated life and various institutions that bear the name of the Virgin Mary. The humble Virgin of Nazareth is undeniably an integral part of our Christian

of Our Lady of Fresneau, in Marsanne, near Valence (France), existed in the Middle Ages under the name of "Our Lady of Consolation." The love of the population of Marsanne for the Virgin Mary found a new

come and be converted For 54 years, between 1664 and 1718, the Virgin Mary appeared to a shepherdess named Benedicta Rencurel near the locality of Le Laus in the French Alps. Mary said to her messenger: "I

(St Mary Major) in Rome, as early as the 4th century A.D. She appeared in a dream to a patrician named John and to Pope Liberius, and asked for a church to be built and dedicated to her, in a place that

God exists. As a matter of fact, if we admit the existence of a God who created all things, in the name of what principle can we deny him the possibility of making a virgin conceive?

and ecclesiastical authorities, but they remained incredulous. The apparition of Coromoto ? the new name given to the place of the apparition ? has created cultural and religious unity in Venezuela around

a small town in the diocese of Turin, Italy, on the evening of December 29, 1336: a young woman named Egidia Mathis, several months pregnant, was walking by a votive column dedicated to the Madonna on

physician – also a Catholic – who was treating her for knee injuries. At her baptism, Kim took the name “Stella” after Mary, Star of the Sea. Courtney Grogan with Addie Mena Seoul, South Korea, February

this particular case, we were dealing with the cleansing of a place, a workspace, a company. In the name of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, I prayed for the health of the souls of those who worked there

adopted sons and daughters of the Father. "For the Almighty has done great things for me, Holy is His name, and His faithful love extends age after age to those who fear him" (Lk 1: 49-50). Saint Augustine