July 7 – Pius XII consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary A miracle in our times: Our Lady of Soufanieh, in the heart of Damascus (Syria) While blood has been spilled in Syria for nearly seven [...] Iwaz, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. It is in this Arab country that Jesus and the Virgin Mary chose to bring a universal, spiritual, Christian, and human message in Arabic for the first time,

and why it started, but I just offered a short prayer to the Virgin Mary and made it a practice (before every shift).” Yap believes Mary’s intercession helped him — along with other police officers and medical [...] July 5 – Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation / Visitation / Nativity / Adoration of the Magi / Finding in the Temple / Resurrection / Ascension) This policeman prays to Our Lady before every [...] parking lot of St Thomas à Becket Church in Reston. “I didn’t realize I was in front of the Virgin Mary statue and I didn’t put any strong emphasis on it because being Catholic, it was normal for me,” he

June 21 – Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary The two servants of Mary (II) Then the mother of God presented Blessed Dominic to Our Lord. “I accept him,” said the Son of God, “he will do very

June 22 - Proclamation of the dogma of Mary Mother of God in Ephesus (431) A spiritual weapon and a rose given to Mary Brother Daniel Klimek, a Franciscan tertiary, during a lecture in Steubenville, Ohio [...] sword, said Klimek. He said that praying the Rosary is also an act of intimacy with the Virgin Mary; each Hail Mary prayed is like presenting her with a rose as a sign of our love for her. Adapted from an article [...] gift that offers both effective spiritual protection against evil and a means of honoring the Virgin Mary by presenting her with spiritual roses. “Wars and bloody crimes have been stopped through the spiritual

June 12 – Mary proclaimed Queen of China in Shanghai (China, 1924) China officially consecrated to Mary in 1924 The Shrine of Mary Help of Christians of Zo-se is of national importance in China. Located [...] missionary, noticing the ruins of a Buddhist temple, thought of setting up a shrine in honor of the Virgin Mary. His dream came true in 1867, and soon Christians started coming there on pilgrimage. It is in this [...] Delegate in China, all the bishops, and many priests, came to officially consecrate China to the Virgin Mary. The current shrine, inaugurated in 1935, was elevated to a minor basilica by Pope Pius XII in 1942

XIII consecrates the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who is “one” with the Heart of Mary (1899) With Mary’s help, let us consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus With the Encyclical Annum

June 17 - Message of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary Alacoque (1689) A Lourdes Grotto in Morocco At the time of WWI, Morocco was under French protectorate, and the French population was in majority [...] Grotto in the French Pyrenees. This way the mothers of soldiers in combat could entrust their sons to Mary’s protection. In the same years, the Franciscan Fathers built an underground church, above which a

March 20 – Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary (Italy) Saint Joseph’s door and Mary’s door In chapter 32 of her Autobiography , Saint Teresa of Avila recounts the "vision of hell," which the Lord let [...] hostile and dangerous world. The other is the mysterious door through which Jesus enters the world, Mary’s door, which opens onto Heaven. Father André Doze Joseph Ombre du Père ("Joseph: God’s Shadow") -

March 19 – Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary Joseph also remained a virgin, out of consideration for Mary You say that Mary did not remain a virgin. I, on the contrary, wish to affirm something more radical—that [...] written that he had another wife, and if he was for Mary, who was considered his wife, a guardian more than a husband, we can conclude that, together with Mary, the one who deserved to be called father by the [...] radical—that Joseph actually remained a virgin—and did so for Mary, so that a virgin Son could be born of a virgin marriage. Since in a holy man like Joseph there was no room for fornication, and since it is

convert – The highly public apparition of Mary in Zeitoun, Egypt, in 1970 God’s closest ally The Mother, like the priest, is God’s closest ally. The Virgin Mary is the most magnificent image of maternal [...] piety, religion and love, let them continue to venerate, invoke and pray to the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, conceived without original sin. Let them fly with utter confidence to this most sweet