to console and warn my poor children! ... I am here to take my children out of their inner misery, to awaken courage and charity in their unhappy hearts, and to offer them a future of peace and freedom.” [...] Michael, Gabriel and Raphael "I, your Merciful Mother, want to protect and save you!" One day in May 1850 in Lichen, Poland (60 km from Poznan), in the Gräblin forest, a shepherd named Nicholas Sikatka [...] declared. "I, your Merciful Mother, want to protect and save you! You should display an icon of me here and come to pray before this source of grace and peace." But Nicholas was taken prisoner by the Prussians

representing the Mother of God carrying the Holy Child in majesty and with the other hand, designating him as "the way, the truth and the life." The monks carried the image to their church, inside the [...] inexplicable transfer reoccurred a few times, the community decided to build a small shrine for it, and named the image "Portaitissa," "the one who keeps the threshold." Around 1980, a Mount Athos hermitage [...] Munos, converted to Orthodox Christianity and went on a visit to Mount Athos. At the hermitage of the Nativity, he was struck by the image of the "Portaitissa," and bought the first replica, taking it back

the Early Church and I Will Support the Church until the End of Time (I) In the year 47 AD according to Ernst, Gamba and Sausseret, or in 70 AD according to Hierzenberger, a woman named Vila (or Villa) [...] carried up to Mount Anis and laid herself down on the flat stone top of a dolmen, which had the reputation of being miraculous. It was known as the “fever stone”. The woman fell asleep and the Blessed Virgin [...] build a church. The bishop would be given a sign: Vila’s cure. Early the next morning, Vila was cured and went to find the bishop who received her warmly. The prelate went up to Mount Anis (the date was July

17, 1559, promoted the devotion of the Rosary, attributing it to St. Dominic, and pointing to its efficacy in intercession and sanctification. Many other popes have urged the faithful to pray the Rosary [...] 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. In 2002, Pope John [...] Mysteries, corresponding to the public life of Christ, from his Baptism and to his Passion. Finally, in keeping with political, economic and Church events, the popes have never ceased to encourage the prayer

the Early Church and I Will Support the Church until the End of Time (I) In the year 47 AD according to Ernst, Gamba and Sausseret, or in 70 AD according to Hierzenberger, a woman named Vila (or Villa) [...] carried up to Mount Anis and laid herself down on the flat stone top of a dolmen, which had the reputation of being miraculous. It was known as the "fever stone". The woman fell asleep and the Blessed Virgin [...] build a church. The bishop would be given a sign: Vila's cure. Early the next morning, Vila was cured and went to find the bishop who received her warmly. The prelate went up to Mount Anis (the date was July

Marian saint and patroness of large families Matilda, Queen of Germany and wife of King Henry I was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark. She was born about 895 and was raised [...] Her great piety and deep Marian devotion led to her canonization. She is especially venerated in Saxony and Bavaria. Her feast day is March 14th. She is the patroness of large families and is called upon [...] 909. He succeeded his father as Duke in the year 912 and in 919 succeeded King Conrad I to the German throne. She was widowed in the year 936, and supported her son Henry's claim to his father's throne

France, each year to pray and seek healing. This popular pilgrimage is one of the most visible examples of the devotion of many Catholics to Mary. In 1858, a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported [...] Soubirous said that the figure identified herself as “the Immaculate Conception” and instructed the girl to dig into the earth and drink the water she found there. In other messages, the lady asked for a church [...] Virgin appeared, join in the chants of the twice-daily processions, attend Mass, take Communion, and bathe in and drink the holy waters of the spring. P. Dorian Llywelyn, SJ - The Conversation, americamagazine

hence his name of Illyricus. He traveled to France where, from 1516 to 1522, he made apostolic tours, preaching with fiery ardor and lively eloquence. In order to rest from his labors and trials, he retired [...] two ships caught in a furious storm and about to capsize and sink beneath the waves. The pious monk fell on his knees, traced the sign of the cross in the sand, and invoked God for all those unfortunate [...] Thomas took it as a gift from heaven and built a modest wooden chapel for her. He placed the statue inside, with respect and love. The same statue of the Madonna and Child is still venerated there today

Einsiedeln and her miraculously dedicated chapel developed in the subsequent centuries and attracted pilgrims from all over Europe. In 1466, the present statue of the Madonna was brought to Einsiedeln and the [...] shrine in Switzerland as well as a place of worship, hospitality and culture. In 1704 the foundations were laid for the abbey complex and the magnificent baroque abbey church was consecrated in 1735. Even [...] Christ, in the company of many angels and saints, consecrated the chapel at the site of St. Meinrad's hermitage. "Engelweihe" is celebrated every year on the 13th and 14th of September. https://shrines-of-europe

the peoples of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary." Russia was named in the text, but this was not accompanied by a public and solemn ceremony, and the bishops of the world were not called to participate [...] of the sons and daughters of Israel; and the threat to Eastern Europe posed by openly atheistic communism. Mary's tears are signs: they testify to the presence of the Mother in the Church and in the world [...] the Immaculate Heart of Mary crowned with thorns and surmounted with flames (just like in Fatima), in a modest house, placed on the wall over the bed of newly-wed Angelo and Antonina Iannuso. From August