serene authority, because he knew that by doing so he was doing the will of God and speaking in his name ... Like a good superior, he made use of his authority only to fulfill the role of a servant, of a

Illyricus. This good monk was born in Illyria (present-day Albania) on the Adriatic coast, hence his name of Illyricus. He traveled to France where, from 1516 to 1522, he made apostolic tours, preaching with

walk, including the Stations of the Cross set through botanical gardens. In 1983, The Grotto was named a National Shrine. Since then, millions have visited and over 300,000 continue to do so each year

United States. It is not at all strange, then, that on the grounds of St Augustine’s Mission of the Name of God (one of the first churches in what would later become part of the United States) we also find

you!" One day in May 1850 in Lichen, Poland (60 km from Poznan), in the Gräblin forest, a shepherd named Nicholas Sikatka saw "a lady come down from the sky, dressed in white and gold, wearing a diamond-studded

water with a heedful look. I poured some water on the dying boy's head, saying, "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." "Why did you do that?" I asked him, surprised

increased after the Council of Ephesus in 431. This church contains mosaics made with gold leaf, hence its name "Deaurata" or "Daurade" (the Golden or the Dorada). For several centuries, is was the home of a Black

leads to the rock of the lower cave where parents can hang a plaque engraved with a date and the name of their unborn child. Likewise, at the Shrine of Montligeon (central France), dedicated to praying

calendar by Pope Sixtus V only in 1585, because of the symbolic interpretation one can read into it, namely that Mary is the model of the Church who, like her, serves God by a total gift of herself. The Virgin

de los Arroyos in Buenos Aires Province began to glow without any explanation. A wife and mother named Gladys Quiroga de Motta saw these glowing rosaries and began to pray to the Virgin Mary. The Virgin