first icon produced there was a replica of the Portaitissa . That day, a Chilean convert to Orthodoxy named José Munos, who was a professor of art history in Montreal, went to Mount Athos to meet iconographers

pilgrimages started. Benedictine monks managed the shrine around 1052. They gave the place the beautiful name of Valfleury ("flowered valley"), in memory of the discovery of the statue of Mary in that valley

Rosary. Leo XIII, known as the "Pope of the Rosary", did much to promote this devotion: it was he who named October the "Month of the Rosary" in 1887 and who dedicated no less than 11 encyclicals to the Rosary

Virgin Mary. Go and tell the clergy and the consuls of Cotignac to build me a church here, under the name of 'Our Lady of Graces', and tell them to come in procession to receive the gifts that I want to bestow

brings, in fact, peace and reconciliation. It contains within itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary". Benedict XVI, address in

population immediately attributed the miracle to Our Lady, who has answered the women's prayers. Hence the name Our Lady of Victory. Consequently, in 1867 Pope Pius IX proclaimed Our Lady of Victory the patron

dogma of the Assumption of Mary was proclaimed, in 1954. Elected Pope on August 4, 1903, he took the name Pius X and was enthroned on August 9, 1903. After he died in the Vatican on August 20, 1914, his remains

Vicar of Basra for Syrian Catholics, took notice. So one day he decided to make her acquaintance. Her name is Sarah, she lives in Abo Sker, one of the most popular Shiite neighborhoods in Basra, and she sells

France, Jean de Lauzon. On February 27, 1642, in Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, the members chose the name of the future colony, which would be called "Ville-Marie," in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They

of a snake. This painting was part of an estate sale held in Turin in the house of a Waldensian* named Albert Pizio, on December 8, 1859. On the day of the sale, friends of Pizio came to look at the furniture