g episode of the Reformation, the Virgin appeared a few miles from Embrun, to a poor shepherdess named Benedicta Rencurel, in the locality of Laus, today the famous Shrine of Our Lady of Laus. The crowds

who was sitting on a tree stump, crying. Thinking that she was lost, the children asked her what her name was. She answered, "Mary of Heaven." At first the Virgin Mary appeared to the four girls every evening

(Cotignac, France, 1519) – Our Lady of Thanks “I am the Virgin Mary” On August 10, 1519, a woodcutter named Jean (John) de la Baume climbed Mount Verdaille (France), where he began his work day by praying.

Beauvais (1901-1951) practiced nursing as an Augustine nun in Malestroit (western France), under the name of Sister Yvonne-Aimée Yvonne-Aimée de Malestroit telle que je l’ai connue, (Yvonne-Aimée de Malestroit

to evangelize under the sign of this maternity: "The baptized is a missionary" who must "make the Name of Jesus known." It is a joy that we should want to share, rather than being reproachful or imposing

same few hours, a successor to Pius IX, Vicenzo Gioacchino Pecci had been elected, and had taken the name Leo XIII. But strangest of all seems to be the bushes' link with the Holy Shroud, preserved in the

mother. Since Christ is our brother, she is our mother too. Indeed, at the end of John's Gospel, Jesus named her as the mother of all of us beloved disciples. So we too have a duty to honor her. If we look back

shouting for the death of Paul, the town clerk told the people that he had not mentioned Diana by name. For two hours the crowd in the arena shouted praises to Diana of the Ephesians until it reverberated

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

Edward I., King of England, St Louis of France, King of France, and many others, to enroll their names in this confraternity.