” The ceremony of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary took place behind closed doors in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary at the Shrine of Fatima on the evening [...] April 13 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy) 24 countries were consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, 24 [...] Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a ceremony presided by Cardinal Antonio dos Santos Marto, Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, at the famous Portuguese Marian shrine. The Prelate asked Mary to “free
Damian, Doctor of the Church (d. 1072) – 6th apparition of Lourdes (France, 1858) The Green Scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary We all know of someone in our lives who is in need of healing. They might [...] is a simple green cloth that has the image of the Virgin Mary on it, with a prayer on it that says, “Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.” There is no official “enrollment” [...] sacramental of the Church that has been known to be an effective channel of God’s miraculous intervention. About 10 years after Saint Catherine Laboure received visions of the Virgin Mary regarding the
Montoya Upegui Madre Laura, founder of the Missionaries of Mary Immaculate Laura Montoya Upegui was born on 26 May 1874 in Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia, the second of three children to Juan de la Crux Montoya [...] In 1914, she went to live among the native Indians and founded the "Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and St Catherine of Siena." Mother Laura died on 21 October 1949 in Medellín, after a long and painful [...] God alone, and dreamed of one day becoming a cloistered Carmelite nun. At the same time, though, she felt growing within her the desire to spread the Gospel to the farthest corners of the earth, to those
Our Lady of the Fountain (Italy, 1320) In the light of Mary, the Church discovers the true face of women Femininity has a unique relationship with the Mother of the Redeemer… The figure of Mary of Nazareth [...] with dignity and of achieving their own true advancement. In the light of Mary, the Church sees in the face of women the reflection of a beauty which mirrors the loftiest sentiments of which the human heart [...] sublime event of the Incarnation of his Son, entrusted himself to the ministry, the free and active ministry of a woman. It can thus be said that women, by looking to Mary, find in her the secret of living their
July 16 – Our Lady of Mount Carmel Mary, Mother of Men and of Unity More than 5,000 Christians took part in the traditional procession in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, popularly called Taalat al-Adra [...] al-Adra, the 'Ascent of the Virgin' on April 29, 2019. Along the route which runs from the Latin parish of Haifa to the Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery, located on Mount Carmel, the faithful from all the [...] also a choir from Beit Sahour. Hundreds of Filipino, Indian as well as African and Asian immigrant workers took part in the public act of devotion to the Virgin Mary, along with pilgrims from Europe, while
June 3 – Our Lady of the Letter (Messina, Italy) Mary Queen of Peace, Patroness of Kazakhstan (I) Bishop José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, of the diocese of Holy Trinity in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was visiting Rome [...] is a painting that commemorates a special moment in the history of part of the Catholic population of Kazakhstan, in a town in the north of the country, populated by Polish deportees who were taken there [...] villages.” On the centenary of the Virgin of Fatima, “more or less the same situation occurred again,” he recounts. “We can’t definitively say that this event is a miracle of the Virgin, but in the end
it be dedicated to “Mary, Queen of Peace.” In 1995, the then-bishop of Kazakhstan and Central Asia consecrated the entire region to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, in a period “of great poverty and very [...] explains why Mary, Queen of Peace, is the Patroness of Kazakhstan. When Saint John Paul II came to the country in 2001, he spoke at the National Shrine of Oziorno … And so the National Shrine of Mary Queen of [...] – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1503) – Saint John Paul II’s first official visit to Poland, in Czestochowa (1979) Mary Queen of Peace, Patroness of Kazakhstan (II) In the 1980s, the faithful of the Almaty
April 12 – Apparition of Our Lady of the Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola and his 3 children in Tre Fontane (Rome, Italy, 1947 – approved in 1956) The Icon of Mary Mother of God (I) According to tradition [...] th centuries, an icon of the Mother of God—or the Madonna and Child—floated straight to the shore of Mount Athos near the monastery of Iviron (Greece). It depicted the Virgin Mary holding up the Child Jesus [...] he discovered the hermitage of the Nativity. As he was shown the workshop, he was left speechless in front of the image of Portaitissa . It was love at first sight, a kind of revelation or vision. Monastic
April 29 – Our Lady of la Ghiara (Italy, 1596) – Saint Catherine of Siena, mystic and doctor of the Church When Mary said YES, she made a commitment on behalf of all of us In you, O Mary, our human strength [...] any more than it has be broken up to now. Amen. Saint Catherine of Siena, written on the feast day of the Annunciation, in 1379. Marie de Nazareth [...] freedom are today revealed, for after the deliberation of such and so great a council, the angel was sent to you to announce to you the mystery of the divine counsel, and to seek to know your will, and
April 13 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy) The Icon of Mary Mother of God (II) José Munos (1) begged his hosts to sell him the icon that had moved him so. But they couldn’t sell it, as it was the first one that [...] was painted there and it was in a way the patroness of the workshop. During the night office, the monastic community sang the hymn to the Virgin Mary Axion estin (an important hymn in the Byzantine liturgy): [...] for the West." He refused all payment. It was a gift, also known as a grace. (1) See A Moment with Mary of April 12, 2019 Olivier Clément French writer, poet and theologian France Catholique , May 30, 1986
