July 29 – Pope Callistus III orders the ringing of bells for the Angelus from that day on (1456) – Saint Martha Let us ask the Mother of God to defeat heresies Muslims turn towards Mecca several times [...] 1456). At first people only recited one Our Father, later the Hail Mary was added. Then the Popes ordered three strokes (in honor of the Most Holy Trinity), and the recitation of a Hail Mary at each stroke

July 29 - Pope Callistus III Ordered the Ringing of the bells for the Angelus (from this day, 1456) Greeting to the Blessed Virgin Mary: The Angelus V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. R. And

August 8 - Our Lady of Laeken (Belgium, 8th C.) - Saint Dominic (d. 1221), founder of the Dominican Order A Mother for All (III) Now, they can call on her more often, said God. They all have a Mother in Heaven

was he a virgin father. Let us not be afraid to place the husband before the wife, according to the order of the nature of God's law. If we were to set Joseph aside to mention only Mary, he would rightly

Jacinta and Francisco soon, but you will remain here for some time yet. Jesus wishes to use you in order to make me known and loved. He wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I

Heart that has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to prove Its love; and in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence

vases of manna. Who can measure My struggle against the dismay that endeavored to overwhelm Me in order to convince Me that I had hoped in vain in the Lord? Oh! I think it was the furious rage of Satan

light unto each one of them, and granted the longed-for salvation. This is the place wherein the Order of Brothers Minor was begun by Saint Francis according unto the impulse of the divine revelation.

tradition of two “redeemer” religious orders founded by two Frenchmen in the early 13th century, for the release of people held captive by the Barbaresques: the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption [...] Redemption of the Captives (Mercedarians) and the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Mercy (Trinitarians). These two orders still exist. In 1194, the Provençal Jean de Mata, born in Barcelonnette (French [...] them. Between the beginning of the 13th century and the end of the 18th century, the Trinitarian order paid the bond of 40,000 captives! The Mercedarians just celebrated their 800th year of existence,

and mercy, so much so that the order founded by him is called the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. From that point forward all Friars, Sisters, and the Third Order always considered Mary as the [...] to free captive Christians. In the First Constitutions of the Order, the Amerian Constitutions (1272): “… all the brothers of the Order must always be gladly disposed to give up their lives, if it is [...] virtue. His concern for captive Christians began to build, and he decided to establish a religious order dedicated to helping these victims of the Moors, who were capturing and enslaving Christians by the