such as Humbert of Romans, a French Dominican friar (who served as the fifth Master General of the Order of Preachers from 1254 to 1263) offered at least seven reasons for this choice: 1 - Saturday is the
Mary acquired the importance it has today. During an apparition, the Virgin Mary declared that in order to save souls from hell, God wished to "establish in the world the devotion to her Immaculate Heart"
joyfully risked their lives rather than abandon "their Queen" to impious and sacrilegious hands. In order to understand the full significance of the siege of Jasna Gora by the Swedes (1655), one must understand
against these most dire enemies a most holy man, the illustrious parent and founder of the Dominican Order. Great in the integrity of his doctrine, in his example of virtue, and by his apostolic labors, he
our advocate, placed between God and the sinner, who is busy invoking the clemency of the judge in order to bend his justice, and to touch the obstinate hearts of the guilty. In his conviction and experience
department of France) founded her congregation at the time of the French Revolution, when many monastic orders were being dissolved and the religious dispersed! A lively child, the future saint was the victim
85). Mary is a creature like us, so we can entrust ourselves without fear to her intercession in order to reach the Son: "If we fear to go directly to Jesus Christ, either because of His infinite greatness
was the way he entered the world, was called to spread the marvelous news of the Resurrection in order to become the herald of his glorious coming. Thus bathed in the glory of the Risen One, she anticipates
Nothing will be impossible for you." Caliph Al-Muizz saw a unique opportunity in this debate and ordered Abraam to prove that Christ's words were true by moving Mokattam Mountain to the east, which would
medicine. Many years later (on March 3, 357), Emperor Constantius, son of the great Constantine, ordered St Artemios, Duke of Egypt, to take the relics of the Saint to Constantinople, and had them laid
