Fonte (St. Mary of the Spring, also called Our Lady of Caravaggio) was built between the 16th and 18th centuries, near the town of Bergamo, Italy. Its construction, begun in 1575, was championed by St. Charles
(France, 1858) Eve and Mary, Mary and the Eucharist Drawing from the parallel between Eve and Mary, St. Peter Damian describes the relationship between the Virgin Mary and the Eucharistic body of her Son: [...] the banquet of Heaven to us."[2] L. Gambero [1] Saint Peter Damian, Sermo XLVI, PL 144, 758 AB. [2] St. Peter Damian, Sermo XLV, PL 144, 743 C.
hymn—a ceremony of praise to the Mother of God before her icon, held on the fifth Saturday of Lent—St John fell asleep in his stall. The Virgin appeared to him and said: “Sing for me and I will not abandon [...] called Panagia Koukouzelissa, after the name of her beloved singer. Her feast is celebrated on October 1st, the same day as her hymnographer’s feast. Mount Athos website
(1817-1903), from Mauleon in the Pyrenees (France), who was a postulant with the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, in the convent of Blangy-sur-Bresle, near Versailles. The Virgin asked her to love [...] 97; Gamba 1999, 389-390; Hierzenberger, 1993, 193-194; M.E. Mott, The Green Scapular, Emmitsburg, St Joseph College, 1942; D. Sharkey, The Woman Shall Conquer, Libertyville, Franciscan Marytown Press
Ignatius of Loyola The Ethiopian Coptic Church: a deeply Marian Church Heirs to the theology of St Athanasius and St Cyril of Alexandria, the Copts in Ethiopia have always embraced the divine maternity of Mary
of the church. It was taught by the earliest church fathers, including Tertullian, St. Athanasius, St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, and it was officially declared a dogma at the fifth ecumenical council
the church who remembers the statue before the explosion that destroyed the cathedral that is called St Mary's in English. "I thought it's as if the Virgin Mary is telling us about the misery of war by [...] remains of the statue of the Virgin Mary have found a new home inside a rebuilt church, also called St Mary's, built on the same site, only 500 metres (1,640 feet) from the bomb's ground zero. But the powerful [...] York for a UN nuclear disarmament conference in May, when it was also taken to a mass at the city's St. Patrick's Cathedral. On their way, the Nagasaki religious leaders also carried the statue to the Vatican
g the sacraments. Now, this prince was about to die and Jesus Christ, in his compassion, commanded St Bridget to tell his confessor to visit him, and exhort him, to make his confession. The confessor went [...] the sixth he died, contrite and entirely resigned. After his death, Jesus Christ further revealed to St Bridget that this sinner was saved, and was in purgatory, and that he had been saved by the intercession [...] life, yet had always preserved devotion to her sorrows, whenever he remembered them he pitied her. St Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary, 535
23 - The Betrothal of the Virgin Mary The Miraculous Birth of Christ You have undoubtedly read about St Bridget's revelation of the birth of this divine Savior (Revelations, Book VII, c.21). She wrote that
fact the former [St Augustine] says that Mary is the mother of the members of Christ, because with charity she cooperated in the rebirth of the faithful into the Church, while the latter [St Leo the Great]
