killings and a long-drawn sectarian war occurred after the country was partitioned in 1947. This was not a Christian conflict, but nevertheless a group of the Blue Army of Mary brought a pilgrim statue [...] that country. The very day it arrived, a cease-fire was declared! Was this just a coincidence? It may have been. But the day the pilgrims carried the statue on a flower-covered train to the border between [...] August 2 – Feast of Our Lady of the Porziuncola, “Our Lady of the Angels” (Italy) The day Mary arrived, a cease-fire was declared In his book The Fatima Century: How the Pilgrim Virgin is Changing Our
1879) Mary inaugurates a new humanity As a result of her fiat , Mary's conduct throughout the earthly life of her Son was enlightened by Divine Wisdom. Eve disobeyed God's commandment and as a result [...] because she freely obeyed the voice of the Lord, Mary gave birth to life. She inaugurated a new humanity, since she is the mother of life in Christ. Mary was a good guide: she led the Child Jesus to the temple [...] result she gave birth to a human race deeply marked by sin. Unlike Eve, Mary positively glowed with the divine presence. At the Annunciation it was not the serpent or devil that she faced, but the angel of the
(1801-1890) Mary’s Modesty Exerts a Gentle Sway When first He [Jesus] went out to preach, she kept apart from Him; she interfered not with His work; and, even when He was gone up on high, yet she, a woman, [...] her superiors in the Church on earth. Nor, when she and they had left this lower scene, and she was a Queen upon her Son's right hand, not even then did she ask of Him to publish her name to the ends of
Damascus, Doctor of the Church (d. ca 749) – Our Lady of Sameiro (Portugal) In Mary’s womb a new humanity has blossomed In Mary’s womb a new humanity has blossomed. God did not have to come among us. God did not [...] Creed expresses with admirable clarity: "Christ is one; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh; but by assumption of the Manhood into God.” In other words, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, a new humanity [...] In the womb of Mary, the Eternal Trinity brought forth this new creation of a humanity so transparent to God that the true Face of God could at last be seen in it. Maurice Zundel In Marie, tendresse de
kneel at the feet of the Virgin Mary. The shrine also provides special novenas (9 consecutive days of prayer directed to a particular intention) and spiritual direction with a priest. The apostolic nuncio [...] April 8 – Divine Mercy Sunday – Our Lady of Basella (Italy, 1356) A shrine dedicated to "Mary who heals married couples" On February 3rd, a new Marian shrine was created in the parish church of Solesmes in [...] the spiritual dimension. And, being a devout Christian, to him the solution is simple: "We must turn to Mary, model of all spouses.” The shrine is simply called "Mary who heals married couples." This project
(1801-1890) Mary’s Modesty Exerts a Gentle Sway When first He [Jesus] went out to preach, she kept apart from Him; she interfered not with His work; and, even when He was gone up on high, yet she, a woman, [...] her superiors in the Church on earth. Nor, when she and they had left this lower scene, and she was a Queen upon her Son's right hand, not even then did she ask of Him to publish her name to the ends of
Basilica A statue of Mary intact after the bombing of Namur As we approach Armistice Day, the commemoration of the ending of WWI on November 11, 1918, one of our readers shared this story with us: On May [...] into one of thanksgiving and the statue was carried in a procession to the throne it occupied before the war. " The miraculously protected statue of Mary (as shown in the old photograph) is still venerated [...] Bishop Thomas-Louis Heylen(1), wrote this: " On August 23, 1914, during the bombing of Namur (Belgium), a shell exploded on the roof of the church of Saint-Nicolas located in the city center. The planks of
(Canada, d. 1680) A missing child found safe through Mary’s protection There have been countless miracles attributed to Our Lady of the Magi of Embrun (France). One is this: In 1639, a 2½ year-old child [...] child of Réallon, a small French town, had wandered off. The search for the missing child went on for several days, along with prayers to Our Lady of Embrun and a barefoot pilgrimage to her shrine. However [...] returned.” It should be noted that less than a hundred years after the devastating episode of the Reformation, the Virgin appeared a few miles from Embrun, to a poor shepherdess named Benedicta Rencurel,
inhabitants and a hospital, while others have a population of only a few hundred and just one overburdened local doctor. The Saint Lukas is the only one of the five medical trains to include a carriage that [...] July 9 – Our Lady of Prodigies (France) This surgeon never failed to pray to Mary before operating on a patient The Saint Lukas is one of five government-funded medical trains that travel to remote towns [...] Lukas, a priest and doctor who operated in Krasnoyarsk during WWII. St Lukas survived the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin’s gulags, and was beatified in the year 2000 by the Orthodox Church. He had a strong
Virgin of the French (Nagasaki, Japan) - Saint Patrick (Ireland, d. 461) After a vision of the Virgin Mary Blessed Alix Le Clerc, a French religious sister from Lorraine, opened many girls’ schools starting [...] Notre-Dame, a religious order of teachers, still present today in many countries. Alix was born February 2, 1576, in Lorraine, France. Born into a wealthy family and beautiful looking, she had a happy childhood [...] enjoyed music and dancing... At 18, she already had "a melancholic soul living amid the world and its vanities.” After a vision of the Virgin Mary, she decided to make significant changes in her life style
