August 9 - Saint Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) What happens when we invite the Blessed Mother into our spiritual warfare On an enlightening episode of The
August 10 - Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr in Rome (d. 258) - Our Lady of Graces (Cotignac, France, 1519) Our Lady of Lebanon, mother of all Lebanese people In Lebanon, on a rocky hill in Harissa o [...] the ship's sails. At 115 meters long and 67 meters wide, it can accommodate up to 3,500 people. Saint John Paul II celebrated mass here on May 10, 1997. Marc Fromager SOS Chrétien d'Orient soschretiensdorient
August 14 - Saint Maximilien Kolbe, martyr (d. 1941 in Auschwitz) - Madonna del Sasso (Locarno, Switzerland, 1480) Backpack hero: "I let myself be guided by Providence and the Virgin Mary" On June 8, 2023
July 26 - Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary In Asia, the Virgin Mary transcends religious boundaries Though it is generally believed that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive [...] in Velankanni to fulfill the vow made by the sailors. Our Lady of the Conception became the patron saint of the kingdom of Portugal in 1640. She was the nation’s true sovereign. Her cult, under the above
July 22 - Saint Mary Magdalene - Our Lady of Kaloja (Russia Russia's great thirst for a return to Jesus and Mary In Russia, a country evangelized since the 10th century, the 20th century was marked by
July 25 - Saint James the Apostle - Our Lady of the Castle (Dalmatia) A Jordanian pilgrimage site where a statue of Mary wept tears of blood in 2010 On Friday, June 18, 2021, the Catholic Church in Jordan
July 24 - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy) - Saint Charbel “Try the Blessed Virgin's water anyway” At the age of 5, due to difficult family circumstances, I was entrusted to the loving care of
July 29 - Saint Martha, hostess of the Lord - Pope Callistus III orders the Angelus bell to be rung three times a day (1456) French mystic Marthe Robin (1) on her relationship with Jesus and Mary "I live [...] Father Dominique Bostyn on "Marthe Robin and Father de Montfort" (2004 International Conference in Saint-Laurent -sur Sèvre) (1) Marthe Robin (1902-1981) was a French Catholic mystic who lived in the Drôme
June 28 - Saint Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon and martyr (d. ca 202) On the day his wife left him, he received a rosary Rafael Garcìa Flores, 48, now lives in Detroit, USA, with his two young children. A few
June 29 - Saints Peter and Paul, apostles - Our Lady of Laghet (France) The sadness of being far from Our Lady Some Slovak Protestant writers have talked about their sadness at not being able to pray to
