the whole world.” A meeting followed where Bishop Palaion Patron Germanos called on Greeks to revolt and raised the flag of the revolution, a banner depicting the Assumption of Virgin Mary that was on the [...] message of independance spread to the rest of Greece. Greeks with the slogan “Freedom or Death” revolted against their Turkish ruler and began a brave struggle for freedom. Kalavryta was the first free Greek [...] Saint Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church, (d. 444) - Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1866) A significant Greek victory on the day of the Annunciation On March 21, 1821 the Greek rebels started
Novembre 2 – Coptic Church: Memorial of the Holy Family in Egypt A peace and joy unknown in Islam Born and raised in a Muslim family, Egyptian author Nahed Mahmoud Metwalli (1) persecuted the Christians [...] Christians at the school where she worked, until she encountered the Virgin Mary, then Jesus, in several visions. One day when she made a snide remark about the medal of the Virgin her secretary was wearing, Nahed [...] right before her eyes. Then, assailed with doubts during the night, she had another vision, this time of Christ, who said to her, "Be at peace. You will have a mission that will be revealed to you in
Should Have a Genuine Devotion to Her Perfect model of this apostolic spiritual life is the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Apostles. While on earth her life was like that of any other, filled with labours and [...] and difficulties of life, until they arrive at the happiness of the fatherland." Everyone should have a genuine devotion to her and entrust his life to her motherly care.
patroness, the Virgin Mary. In gratitude to Mary, for whom he had a special devotion, he founded a perpetual mass to be said at 7am every day of the year in the church of Marsat. A painting commemorating [...] Marsat shrine, a perpetual mass founded by King Louis XI To mark the 600th anniversary of the birth of French King Louis XI (1423-1483), a Louis XI Day was celebrated on June 25, 2023, in Marsat, a French commune [...] early days of his reign, came to Auvergne on a military campaign. He stayed at Marsat on June 22-24. When after skilful negotiations he managed to sign a treaty with the rebel lords on July 4, he credited his
hands a hymn to the Blessed Virgin Deeply devoted to the Blessed Virgin and inviolably attached to chastity, Prince Casimir (now Saint Casimir, patron of Lithuania) tamed his passions by leading a life [...] transferred into a church that Sigismund III, King of Poland, had just built in his honor and dedicated to him, Casimir’s body was found still supple and rosy, fully preserved. In his hands he held a hymn to the [...] the Blessed Virgin, beginning with these verses: "Every day, O my soul, pay your respects to Mary; solemnize her feasts and celebrate her brilliant virtues; contemplate and admire her elevation; proclaim
resembles a second-century imperial basilica. The miraculous icon "Salus Populi Romani," relics of Bethlehem crib, and the "Miracle of the Snow" are commemorated every year on August 5th with a solemn Mass [...] the 4 th century, by appearing simultaneously in a dream to the patrician John and to Pope Liberius (d. 366). She then indicated the location by a miracle. In the morning of August 5th, the height of summer [...] August 5 – Our Lady of the Snows (Italy) A miraculous snowfall on the Esquiline hill According to tradition, the Virgin asked for the construction of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, in the
(Rwanda, 1981) A unique case in all of history A unique case in all of history is the fact that the coming of a Savior Messiah was expected in Israel, on account of so many prophecies! When she was a child, Mary [...] , one after the other over several centuries. Mary was waiting at the heart of a small nation, buffeted by history, which had survived confrontations with neighboring empires and eventually became the [...] Mary was waiting, in the midst of her people Israel, for the coming of the Messiah, who had not been announced by just one prophet, but by a long line of men, predicting and completing their prophecies
Casimir (Poland, 1411) Keep My Heart like a Child’s Holy Mary Mother of God, Keep my heart like a child’s; pure and transparent like a stream. Obtain for me a simple and open heart that does not seek sorrow [...] sorrow, Always ready to be given, always filled with compassion. Obtain for me a faithful and generous heart, That does not forget any good and yet keeps no resentment for any evil. Make my heart soft [...] ingratitude can close, That no indifference can weary. Obtain for me a heart wounded by His love, Tormented for the glory of Jesus Christ; A heart that can only heal in Heaven.
Casimir (Poland, 1411) Keep My Heart like a Child’s Holy Mary Mother of God, Keep my heart like a child's; pure and transparent like a stream. Obtain for me a simple and open heart that does not seek sorrow [...] sorrow, Always ready to be given, always filled with compassion. Obtain for me a faithful and generous heart, That does not forget any good and yet keeps no resentment for any evil. Make my heart soft [...] ingratitude can close, That no indifference can weary. Obtain for me a heart wounded by His love, Tormented for the glory of Jesus Christ; A heart that can only heal in Heaven.
joined by a photo of her sons, a photo which travelled around with her and had been found in her handbag. Adapted from : https://fr.aleteia.org/2021/07/02/ce-precieux-chapelet-avec-lequel-lady-di-a-ete-enterree/ [...] rosary beads that had been draped over a small statue of the Virgin Mary and put them in his pocket. The princess had received the rosary beads earlier that year as a gift from Mother Teresa, when the two [...] Pity, aka Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (France, diocese of Montauban) On her desk, Lady Diana kept a rosary given to her by Mother Teresa Did Mother Teresa know that the rosary she had given to Lady Di
