defined it as a dogma of faith in 1854: "From the first moment of her conception, through the unique grace and privilege of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved from original sin. As on the

pleasure and joy, but she found pain and nakedness. In the fruit of the womb of the Virgin, we find grace and salvation: he who eats this fruit will have eternal life. Eve was after a kind of transitory beauty

recourse to you today, the Mother of my Lord. I venerate you, O great Queen, and thank you for all the graces you have obtained for me, especially for having delivered me from hell, which I have so often deserved

because it was considered to be a prayer extremely pleasant to God and a source of immeasurable graces for whom it was prayed. Nevertheless, this recommendation was followed only by literate and learned

her to show us both the greatness of our human nature and the all-surpassing greatness of divine grace. (...) Even the early Protestant reformers never called for a wholesale rejection of the Marian dogmas

enmity between you and the woman." Eve added: "I closed paradise through my fault, but you, Full of Grace, you have opened it again." Each Prophet told her in turn, "I have prophesied about you here and there

said to me, ‘Oh, how pleasing to God is the soul that follows faithfully the inspirations of His grace!' ‘I gave the Savior to the world, as for you, you must speak to the world about His great mercy and

experienced Mary's faithful tenderness, through Notre-Dame des Victoires (Our Lady of Victories): "The graces that she granted to me moved me so deeply and I was so happy, I cried like on the day of my First

Lepanto (Hungary, 1716) Mary and the Holy Spirit At the Annunciation, Mary who was already full of grace, became the residence of the Holy Spirit in a very special way: indeed, He covered her with His shadow

Redemption; and the third one is God the Father. But why is it so difficult to preserve in ourselves the graces and treasures we have received from God? It is because we hold this treasure in fragile vessels, [...] and changing soul. But, we may ask, where does this strange change come from? Was it for lack of grace? No, but for lack of humility, for believing ourselves to be stronger and more self-sufficient than