Fatima apparition in September 1917. In his homily, he underscored the relationship between the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the mystery of the Cross: "Whenever life puts us on a cross, whenever infirmity

to remain in that community all her life and receiving the name of Sister Mary of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. Her last public appearance was on October 2000, in a television documentary showing her

virginity! What could be purer, what could be more irreprehensible than the Virgin? God, sovereign and immaculate Light, found her so charming that he united himself to her substantially, by the descent of the

our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed

believed, for example, in Mary's perpetual virginity. Luther even believed in the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception, centuries before the Church solemnly defined it. Not until later generations would

The official pilgrimage now takes place in December, on the Saturday preceding the feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8th. Recent miracles have been reported since the year 2000. Source: "Diocesan

strength, expressing his ever more exacting will... Thus we can understand, Marthe says, how Mary is immaculate in her Conception and in her divine maternity. Father Manteau-Bonamy Excerpts from Marthe Robin

and, without opposing voice, and amid the jubilation of the whole Church, she will be hailed as immaculate in her conception.

moment from his prepared text. Mary is "Our Lady of Prompt Succor, who, after conceiving in her immaculate womb the Word of life, goes out to visit and assist her cousin Elizabeth." And, he assured us,

- Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mary's sovereign presence fills heaven and earth "By her immaculate purity, she is the Queen chosen by God himself, the Queen loved by the Angels, who from the heights