did not attend church or catechism. On Sunday, January 15, 1933, at about 7 pm, Mariette was sitting near the kitchen window looking out onto a small garden. It was dark and snowing, about 10°F and freezing

gravity of people's sins was hindering the conversion of the Albigensians, withdrew into a forest near Toulouse, where he prayed continuously for three days and three nights. During this time he did nothing

receptivity to God magnifies the scale of his redemptive work - the vast expanse he traverses to draw near us, to pitch his tent among us. Mary, full of grace, exhibits a restoration of the imago Dei, the

girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported having 18 visions of a beautiful “young lady” in a cave near Lourdes, which was then a provincial town. Soubirous said that the figure identified herself as “the

animist farmers. From the age of 12, he regularly attended a mission of the Spiritan Fathers established near his village. It was among these missionaries that he discovered his vocation. He studied at seminaries

into a working-class family and lived in a modest house on the outskirts of the village of Banneux, near a large pine forest. On the evening of January 15, 1933, Our Lady appeared for the first time in the

after Martyr Theophane Venard (1829-61), a French missionary who was beheaded for his Catholic faith near the church. July 6, 2021 Adapted from https://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/vietnam-catholics-celeb

mother, on the other hand, rewarded the visits and the affection of her child. She fell ill, and was near her end. It happened that two religious passing that way, weary with travel ling, stopped to rest

welcome. Yet there is no room at the inn. In some way, mankind is awaiting God, waiting for him to draw near. But when the moment comes, there is no room for him. Man is so preoccupied with himself, he has such

kitchen window before supper on Sunday, January 15, 1933. She saw a glowing figure standing motionless near the vegetable garden, dressed in white with a bright blue sash. The figure held a rosary and was smiling