appeared to persecuted Catholics who had fled to escape death in 1798. The Rev. Lewis Hejna, rector of St Agnes Cathedral in Springfield, says that an estimated 100,000 Vietnamese Catholics were killed when [...] and promised that if followers continued their prayers, they would be protected and would survive. St Agnes Cathedral has had a tradition of welcoming Vietnamese refugees since the fall of Saigon in 1975

Italian Bishops' Conference, Italy was consecrated to the Blessed Virgin on May 1, 2020, the feast of St Joseph the Worker. The consecration ceremony took place in the evening at 9 p.m. in the Basilica of [...] all the sick, health workers and doctors, families, and the deceased," he explained, and in memory of St Joseph, "the workers" are entrusted to her in particular, in view of "the concerns and fears so many

This "gift from heaven", as St. Louis de Montfort called it, is immensely powerful: "While preachers were preaching the devotion of the Holy Rosary, following the example of St. Dominic, piety and fervor

the Resurrection of our Lord, the Church has us renew the promises of our baptism. She reminds us of St. Paul's teaching: "We were therefore buried with Christ through baptism into death in order that, just [...] the central mystery of our Christian faith. If Christ had not risen, our faith would be vain, says St. Paul, and we would be the most miserable of men. But Christ is truly risen and he appeared to the

Peyton, the apostle of the Family Rosary, whom she knew well and who wanted to produce a new film at St. Peter's in Rome, to revive the recitation of the Rosary: "Your Highness, a poor Irish priest is asking [...] with which she recited the Gospel verses. Grace brought her faith to the filming, which was done at St. Peter's Basilica. Could we not see this as her spiritual testament?" Adapted from : L'Appel du Coeur

this house and dedicated on September 8: the Basilica of the Nativity of Mary, renamed the Church of St. Anne in the 12th century. The anniversary of this dedication was commemorated every year. The feast [...] salvation have begun to blow" (Byzantine Liturgy). It was in the Basilica of the Nativity of Mary that St. John Damascene, Father and Doctor of the Church (d. 749) proclaimed: "Come, all of you: with joy let

world and was reformed by Teresa of Avila and St.John of the Cross in the 16th century. These two saints had a special love for the Virgin Mary and for St. Joseph. Hermits returned to the caves of Mount

God, to receiving a creature! Nevertheless, she did not refuse, knowing well that in the person of St. John she was accepting as her own all the children of the Cross and that she would be their dear Mother [...] one another with that tender and deep love of the son for his Mother and of the Mother for her son.” St. Francis de Sales

Mother, inspired and guided by his Spirit, is carried out by the united action of the Virgin Mary and St. Michael, who is the Prince of the Celestial Army, of which Mary is the Queen. It is because we fight [...] the victory of her general, the Prince of the Heavenly Army. Let us remember that at Fatima, she sent St. Michael to give Holy Communion to the visionaries. Father Magloire Nkounga General chaplain of the

retired Archbishop of Warsaw-Prague in Poland, begins his mandate on Sunday as Apostolic Visitor to St James Parish in Medjugorje. He will inaugurate his ministry with a solemn Mass in the evening and has [...] participate. Archbishop Hoser was first appointed by Pope Francis as a special envoy from the Holy See to St James Parish on February 11, 2017. At that time the Holy See’s Press Office stated that the mission