Bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church, (d. 444) - Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1866) A Venezuelan was healed of a poisonous snake bite thanks to Mary! A Venezuelan tribal chief, chosen by Our Lady to [...] devotion to her grew. The rest of the Coromotos were baptized shortly after the chief himself had finally embraced the faith. A church was built in honor of Our Lady of Coromoto in the nearby town of Guanare [...] likewise looks to be painted on the tilma but seems to mysteriously hover just above the cloth without actually affixing to it. Our Lady of Coromoto was declared patroness of Venezuela first by the Venezuelan
July 4 - Our Lady Refuge of Sinners - Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Mary appeared to Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Saint Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal (1271-1336), received her name at her baptism, in memory [...] cloths and clothes for the poor. Raised to the throne of Portugal by her marriage to Denis, King of that country, she was remarkably patient in the trials she often had to endure from her husband, and, in return [...] memory of St Elizabeth of Hungary, her aunt. At the age of eight, she began the practice of reciting the Divine Office daily and continued it until her death. She despised luxury, shunned entertainment, assisted
18 – Our Lady of Health (Italy, 1428) - Beatification of Sister Faustina (1993) Speak to the souls of this great Mercy! Mary, Mother of Mercy, occupied a very special place in the spirituality of Saint [...] childhood was very attached to Mary. When she became a nun in the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy, her devotion to Mary grew even more. Sister Faustina was favored with several visions of Mary during which the [...] Faustina to live in the presence of God in her soul, to love the Cross, and to practice the virtues that foster an attitude of trust in God and of mercy towards others. She revealed great mysteries to her.
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when the statue of Our Lady of Fatima came to Rome. The consecration of the nations of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has spread following the request made by the [...] April 17 – Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) Pope Saint John Paul II consecrated the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Ireland was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Solemnity [...] during her third apparition to the three little shepherds on July 13, 1917. In particular, Our Lady asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, in order to save humanity from war, famine
February 8 – Our Lady of Casimir (Poland, 1411) Relic of the Holy Crib returned to the Holy Land A small piece of the precious Relic of the Holy Crib of the Child Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on Friday, [...] the celebration of Holy Mass, at 9.00 a.m., in the Chapel named after Our Lady of Peace in the Notre Dame Center. As soon as this first celebration came to an end, the faithful were able to venerate the Relic [...] Father Pope Francis to the Custody of the Holy Land. The Relic, donated by St Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem to Pope Theodore I (642-649), was displayed in Rome, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
November 4 – Our Lady of Máriapócs (Hungary, 1696) Ukraine: First Christian nation consecrated to the Mother of God In 1036, Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise (c. 978-1054, son of St Vladimir the Great), [...] the Church of the Annunciation at the Golden Gates of the city. In 1037, in that same Church of the Annunciation, he placed the entire nation of Kievan Rus’ under the protection of the Mother of God. Thus [...] by the will of the God-fearing Monarch Yaroslav the Wise, the land of Rus’ Ukraine was the first Christian nation to be officially consecrated by its leader to the protection and patronage of the All Holy
October 28 – Our Lady of La Treille (Lille, France) This priest handed an image of Mary to Muslims on a beach "Hey, I'm 50 years old, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen this!” Marie Joëlle has a [...] surprise when a priest comes to interrupt her sunbathing session on one of the beaches in Toulon, southern France. Last August, the priests of St Francois de Paule parish of Toulon, accompanied by young [...] Catholics from the community of the Missionaries of Divine Mercy , walked the sandy beaches around the bay. For the past 15 years, the city’s Missionaries of Divine Mercy have gone out to reach locals and vacationers
October 26 – Our Lady of Health (Venice, Italy, 1630) Charles and Zita of Habsburg entrusted their marriage to Mary "Now we have to help each other get to Heaven." These are the words pronounced by Archduke [...] memorial of Blessed Charles of Austria in 2004. The day after their wedding, Charles and Zita went on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Mariazell, near the Austrian Styrian Alps, to consecrate their union to the [...] Archduke Charles of Habsburg to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma on the day before their wedding. They both took this pledge seriously. Through war and exile and the tragic turn that their life took, it guided
Dedication of the Shrine of Our Lady of “Benoîte-Vaux” (France, 1138) A statue of Mary found next to an uprooted oak “Benoîte-Vaux” (literally "Benedicta's Valley) has been a Marian place of pilgrimage [...] at the base of an uprooted oak. Surprised, they decided to build a small oratory for it. A hermit went to live there and later some priests joined him, to welcome the increasing number of pilgrims. In [...] In 1180, the bishop of Verdun appealed to the Premonstratensians (Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré , or Norbertines) to operate the shrine. In the 19th century, the shrine greatly developed. A monastery
Mary Mother of the Church – Our Lady of Saint Luke (Italy, 1857) - Saint Landry, Bishop of Paris Church history is undeniably linked to the history of Mary Since the Lord Jesus, in the person of the apostle [...] "Mother of the Church" contains an immeasurable wealth of meaning: it refers to the depth of the mystery of motherhood contained in the word "mother," but also to "the Church" who gives birth to life in [...] his mother to all who believed in him as the Son of God and Redeemer of humanity (see John 19:25-27), Church history for the past two thousand years has been undeniably linked to the history of Mary. In
