words are written on the belt: "Receive and wear this blessed belt with confidence as a sign of my maternal protection and as a pledge of a happy deliverance." You can request this belt by sending an email [...] is probably the oldest Marian shrine in France. A former pagan temple, it was transformed into a church in the early 5 th century, and re-dedicated to Mary, whose veneration increased after the Council of [...] contains mosaics made with gold leaf, hence its name "Deaurata" or "Daurade" (the Golden or the Dorada). For several centuries, is was the home of a Black Madonna, believed to have saved the Saint Michael

parish priest of Ceignac in 1823, who wrote: "Tradition reports that around the year 1150, there was in Hungary a blind prince palatine, very devoted to the Blessed Virgin, whom he often invoked in a chapel [...] where a storm caused him to lose some of his people. He then crossed the mountains of Languedoc on foot to the chapel of the Mounts, where, having entered, after greeting the Blessed Virgin, he had a mass [...] of Calmont. This place in the historical province of Rouergue has been dedicated to the Virgin Mary for a very long time. Historians attribute its foundation to Saint Martial himself, when he came to

among its victims was a young widow, Anna Dubliker, with her two children. Overcoming her weakness, she ran to the foot of a statue of Mary inside an oratory ready to fall into ruin. Mary granted the humble [...] the statue in a bush and ran away. Anna could not part with her treasure. She sat down by the statue, prayed, and waited. One of her children however, while picking some flowers, found a coin at the foot [...] the mother dug in the ground around the same spot, and unearthed a vase full of silver Roman coins. She stopped and paid a cart driver with half of the money to take her and her children and her beloved

devotion of many Catholics to Mary. In 1858, a 14-year-old 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 [...] earth and drink the water she found there. In other messages, the lady asked for a church to be built there so priests could come in procession. Many Catholics interpreted the apparitions as confirming [...] element of Catholic faith. This teaching holds that Mary, as the mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin. [...] Since the 1860s, Church officials have formally declared 70 of the Lourdes healings

would bear a son). The Druids were a fraternity of priests, religious teachers and judges who ruled the Celtic inhabitants of ancient Gaul (France now), Britain and Ireland. The Druids had a place of worship [...] they had an altar in a grotto on a hill now occupied by the Cathedral; this altar was dedicated to the “Virgin who would bring forth a son” – traditionally also at that grotto there was a wooden statue to [...] kept their prophecies and traditions with them]; they might have received it from a revelation direct from God; they may have gotten it from ancient tradition running back to the early patriarchs and prophets

Virgin of Aparecida stands over a crescent moon with her hands lifted to her breast in prayer. She gazes upward with a beatific smile on her face. She appeared in 1717 in a small Brazilian town. Some fishermen [...] of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the belief that God interrupted the flow of human history by a special act and preserved Mary from the stain of original sin from the first moment [...] hauled up the image in their net and, after a night of empty netted fishing, pulled in a great catch. After the image remained in the fisherman’s family for 15 years, a series of miracles began to be attributed

women’s make-up and wait for a client in the Bois de Boulogne, a Parisian park known for its prostitutes. These images might upset the viewers, set against the backdrop of such a sacred place. Paradoxically [...] parishioners have praised me for being brave. For me it was a natural thing to do." Isidore is now 66 and spends most of his time at the Sacred Heart Basilica in Montmartre (Paris), where he is a regular adorer [...] Isidore’s way of the cross began as a teenager when he ran away from an abusive father, leaving Portugal to go to France. There, his only connections were in the street. A string of bad encounters led him

Anthony of Padua and Sebastian. On May 16, 1888, a priest alleged an apparition of Christ bleeding, with his Mother. Healings were reported, including that of a child who was born mute. Thousands of people [...] Italy, Fabiana Cecchino (1853-1939) and Serafina Giovanna Valentino (1854-1931), saw a light coming out of a cleft in a rock, and immediately afterwards, the "Madonna appeared in the center of this light" [...] created a commission of inquiry. On February 23, 1889, he declared: "I experienced an apparition of the Virgin. She appeared to me in the guise of Our Lady of Sorrows." The prelate wished to have a chapel

especially at the hour of death. Wearing the scapular is a very simple act that requires only a small effort, that of having it imposed on oneself by a priest, and then of wearing it constantly on one's person [...] saved Fatima's seer Sister Lucia strongly emphasized the importance of wearing the scapular in a conversation with Father Rafferty on October 15, 1950. “In many books on Fatima," Father Rafferty remarked, "the [...] the commitment to serve entails the wearing of a uniform. In the same way, the scapular manifests, on the part of the one who wears it, his belonging to Mary and, on the part of Our Lady, the commitment

you might have hoped, because you are my little girls. Do not forget to consecrate yourselves to me on October 7th. Be good. I am Mary, Mediatrix of all graces." The following October 3rd, a "rain of rose [...] rubbed the ailing foot with some water which had been set before the wooden statue of the Virgin inside her new chapel. On December 6, 1948, an official report was sent to Bishop A. Verzosa, of Lipa. The [...] believe my words." Our Lady replied: "Pray intensely, my daughters, because of persecutions. Pray for priests. What I ask in this place is the same thing I asked in Fatima. Do penance for those who do not believe