April 30 – Our Lady of Africa (Algiers, Algeria, 1876) - Canonization of Sister Faustina (2000) "You have to prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come" Sister Faustina Kowalska (1) recorded [...] who 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 have to speak to the world about His great mercy [...] apparitions of the Virgin Mary in her Diary, and about thirty visions of Christ, the angels and departed souls. Here is what the Virgin Mary told her on March 25, 1936: “Then I saw the Mother of God, who
April 1 – Our Lady of Suasia (Italy, 1556) To Jesus through Mary: A very ancient precept of the Church The origin of "To Jesus through Mary" is generally attributed to Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort [...] Devotion to the Blessed Virgin . That is to say that he used the expression most explicitly, and presented devotion to Mary as the most effective means of consecration to Jesus. Therefore, according to Grignion [...] ought to entrust ourselves to Mary in imitation of Christ ( True Devotion 121, 123, 124). According to Montfort, true devotion "consists in giving oneself entirely to the Blessed Virgin, in order to belong
presence of the local bishop, Bishop Pierre-Marie Coty, who had already decided to make the hill of Issia a place of pilgrimage dedicated to Our Lady of Deliverance. There are many reports of miracles [...] 7 – Our Lady of Zyrovic (Lithuania, 1432) – Blessed Josaphata Michaelina Hordashevska, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate (d. 1919) “I want to dig a spring of living [...] Shrine of Our Lady of Issia in the Ivory Coast has been in existence since 1990. It is renowned throughout French-speaking Africa. It was a stigmatist nun, Mother Mary of the Cross, foundress of the Little
March 10 – Our Lady of Miracles (Bari, Italy, 1576) Devotion to Saint Joseph is inseparable from that of the Blessed Virgin It’s a good thing that part of the month of March, dedicated to Saint Joseph [...] Lent, since during this time each one of us is supposed to do exactly what Saint Joseph did—strive to glorify the Lord by offering ourselves to Him for the salvation of the world, in silence and humility [...] Wednesday. Our practice of prayer, mortification, works of mercy, and alms are real offerings that the Lord, through the mystery of the Mass, uses in union with His own sacrifice, for the salvation of the world
in the diocese of Leiria-Fatima, the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima welcomes millions of pilgrims from all over the world every year. The town was the scene of a series of six apparitions to three young shepherds [...] July 16 - Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pope Francis to make a stop at the Shrine of Fatima during World Youth Day Fatima, in central Portugal, is one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in the Catholic world [...] "I want to tell you that a chapel is to be built here in my honor. I am the Lady of the Rosary," the Virgin said. Mary imparted several important messages to the children, especially an appeal to prayer
May 15 - Our Lady of the Light (Mexico) "Mary has always been essential to the equilibrium of the Faith" Benedict XVI has testified publicly to his Marian devotion on many occasions. In an interview with [...] equilibrium of the Faith, today it is urgent, as in few other epochs of Church history, to rediscover that place.” “The correct Marian devotion guarantees to Faith the coexistence of indispensable ‘reason’ [...] be able to feel warmth: devotion to Mary (which ‘avoids every false exaggeration on the one hand, and excessive narrow-mindedness in the contemplation of the surpassing dignity of the Mother of God on the
May 10 - Our Lady of the Holy House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) The House of Mary, transported from Nazareth to Loreto In 1291, when the crusaders left the Holy Land for good and the Muslim armies, as [...] the walls of the house of the Blessed Virgin in Nazareth were transported first to Dalmatia (today's Albania and Croatia), then, on the night of December 9-10, 1294, to the ancient territory of Recanati [...] Italy), first close to the harbor and then to the hill where the house of Mary still stands today (Loreto). According to a popular tradition never challenged by the long series of popes who have shown
May 8 - Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 1875) The wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (II) Mary sustains us when we are ready to fall; lifts us up when we have fallen; takes us back, as a charitable [...] mysteries of Jesus Christ, into the final ends of man and into the heart of God Himself; a courageous Faith, which will make us undertake and come to the end of great things for the sake of God and the [...] the salvation of souls, without hesitation. Finally, a faith that will be our all-powerful weapon which we will use to enlighten those who are lukewarm or in need of charity, and finally to resist the devil
May 9 - Our Lady of the Wood (Italy, 1607) "My daughter, I want to teach you a lesson of great importance" Sister Josefa Menendez (1) noted on Friday, April 22, the devil’s efforts to take away her peace: [...] "I went up to the oratory of the Blessed Virgin in the Novitiate to beg her not to let me give in. She suddenly came, in a very motherly attitude, and said to me: - "My daughter, I want to teach you a [...] (1890-1923), was a Coadjutrix nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She is the author of the famous book The Way of Divine Love in which she conveys, by order of Jesus himself, many messages received
27 - Our Lady of the Road (Italy, 1617) - 10th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) - Blessed Mary of Jesus (Marie Deluil-Martiny), foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus [...] Lent is the key to the message of Lourdes A study of the distribution of the apparitions at Lourdes shows that they are carefully ordered around the 40 days of Lent. No less than 14 of the 18 apparitions [...] eat grass to purge their stomach. This gesture as well as the presence of water evoke the traditional rituals of purification. They take on their full meaning in this period of Lent, a time of fasting and
