Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes. It was just two years after the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and Mary confirmed that it was indeed her name. She asked that the people do penance

as they were all fervent devotees of different Marian cults: the Franciscans and Jesuits of the Immaculate Conception, the Dominicans of the Virgin of the Rosary. So, Mary’s image would exert a remarkable

and, without opposing voice, and amid the jubilation of the whole Church, she will be hailed as immaculate in her conception. John Henry Newman (1) Discourses of Mixed Congregations - Discourse 17. The

rest of her life doing the same thing—saying "YES" to God nonstop. The girl was called Mary, the Immaculate, conceived without sin and who always remained so—by her own free will. She was a daughter of Eve

“three white loves” that the Virgin of Revelation revealed in her apparition: the Eucharist, the Immaculate Virgin Mary and the Holy Father. Source: National Catholic Register

me. In the days after the fire, I stood amid the rubble, contemplating the Virgin on the pillar, immaculate and preserved, upright and consoling, watching over her children, while a huge charred beam lay

the faith and became a Catholic within nine months. Shortly after, he joined the Marians of the Immaculate Conception and discerned a priestly vocation. Last September, he finally made it to Medjugorje—where