retirement in early 2008, at the age of 70 years old. Edmond was a lawyer in the old city of Saint-Denis (near Paris). He had been filled with love for God and a contagious enthusiasm for the Blessed Virgin Mary
school to participate with her family in a mission to be given in Sablieres, in the South of France, near the small town where she was born. One of the missionaries was an energetic and zealous diocesan priest
A terrible cholera epidemic broke out in September 1849. In a little more than a month, it took nearly 2,000 victims out of a population estimated at less than 30,000 inhabitants. Nothing seemed to be
that she and several other women lay crammed into a small bathroom in the home of a Protestant pastor near her home in the western province of Kibuye, on Lake Kivu. Pastor Murinzi, a Hutu, did not share in
(Luke 17:6). It is a frequent practice for those who have the Green Scapular to place the scapular near someone who is in need of healing, whether physical or spiritual. Then, the person who placed the
gathered his army in Bourges, Philip-Augustus, king of France, marched on Châteauroux, a fortified town near Déols (Berry). The son of Henry II Plantagenet, Richard "the Lionheart", built a defensive position
patroness of the country, which every year attracts millions of pilgrims. In San Nicolás — a city near Rosario, Messi’s birthplace — is the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás, which has a
in Portugal: it is Our Lord Himself who told this to the seer Sister Lucia. It happened in Rianjo, near Pontevedra, where she had been sent to recover from an illness. This is what she wrote on August 29
probably on the feast of Easter, when the emperor had just pacified Provence by driving out the Muslims near Montmajour, and when he was passing through the town of Apt and attending mass, an extraordinary event
and limping, makes his way leaning 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