March 31 - Our Lady of the Militias (Sicily, 1091) - Our Lady of Iwer (Russia) An apparition of the Virgin Mary on horseback In 1736, the Sacred Congregation of Rites ruled that the feast of Maria Santissima [...] Santissima delle Milizie (Our Lady of the Militias, or Our Lady on Horseback), patron saint of the town of Scicli in Sicily, formerly a mobile feast, should be celebrated on the Saturday before Passion Sunday [...] miraculously resolved in favor of the Christians by the intervention of the Virgin Mary, who thus liberated Sicily from Saracen domination. The Saracen Belcane, whose forces were superior, was about to win until
March 8 - Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1487) - St. John of God Mary saved Saint John of God from death when he was a soldier In 1638 the Spanish army besieged Fontarrabia, occupied at that time by the French [...] convinced that the stranger could only be the Virgin Mary or an angel she had sent. Wilhelm Hünermann, The beggar of Granada: a Life Picture of St. John of God [...] prayed to the good Virgin Mary whom he had always turned to for help and consolation since he was a child: "You alone can save me, Queen of Heaven, do not let me fall into the hands of the enemy." Then he fainted
declaring the dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854: Mary is immaculate from the moment of her conception, "because of the merits of Jesus Christ her Son, the Redeemer of the human race." [...] February 18 - Saint Bernadette of Lourdes Mary chose Bernadette to confirm the dogma of the Immaculate Conception The Church proclaims that Mary is holy. But her holiness is unlike any other: she is the [...] sin. This is the meaning of the Immaculate Conception. This declaration raised a lot of controversy. Many disagreed with the fact that Mary came into the world without the stain of original sin if she really
February 16 - Our Lady of the Covenant of Mercy Mary delivers us from a catastrophic vision of things "The uncertainties of the present time, the doubts about the future, not only about the planet but [...] the Church is based first of all on God's faithfulness to her. Made up of sinners, the Bride of Christ is only holy through the very holiness of God, and through the grace of God who calls her members [...] conversion. Mary delivers us from a catastrophic vision of things. No matter how low we may fall, her maternal help will never fail us. She is the woman who, in the book of Revelation, in the midst of the turmoil
1981, Marthe, who was totally given to the Mother of God, affirmed her great hope: "John Paul II is Mary's pope; she chose him. We are in the age of Mary." For more information: Marian Encyclopedia (1) Marthe [...] February 5 - Our Lady of Chernihiv (Ukraine) "We are living in the age of Mary" "I have chosen you, to experience my Passion the most fully after my Mother. Moreover, no one after you will live it as fully; [...] Marthe Robin was born in 1902 in Châteauneuf-de-Galaure in the Drôme region of France, and died on February 6, 1981. She was a French Catholic mystic who founded the Foyers de Charité, which are present
messages from Jesus and Mary, which she faithfully compiled in a book which is published in English under the title of The Way of Divine Love. This book received the blessing of the future Pope Pius XII [...] January 21 - Our Lady of Altagracia (Higuey, Dominican Republic, 1650) Mary to Sister Josefa Menendez: “The WORK of Jesus must be founded on much pain and love” Josefa Menendez (1890-1923) was a Spanish [...] Virgin appeared to her in the chapel in the evening and emphasized the merit of her act: "Because you overcame your aversions out of love," she told her, "Heaven was opened today for eternity to a soul whose
Our Lady of Good Journey (India, 1599) - Conversion of St. Paul Saint Paul, who never met Mary, placed her at the central point of Salvation History Saint Paul did not witness the earthly life of Jesus, [...] would deserve a whole chapter: "But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the law, to redeem the subjects of the law, that he might confer upon us filial adoption [...] met the Virgin Mary, yet he knew who Jesus was and was therefore able to reflect on the fact that he had a mother. The letter to the Galatians, written around 56 A.D., places the mother of Jesus at the central
26 - Our Lady of Life (France) - Birth of Cardinal Charles Journet (1891) Let us not reduce the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary We should approach the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary only with trembling [...] luminous mystery, and he who lacks what is necessary to draw near to it - as is the case with each of us, because of our resistance and our mental clumsiness - will inevitably belittle it, or distort it through [...] measure, but instead be changed in her light. Cardinal Journet Quoted by Mgr Brincard in the preface of Daniel-Ange's book, Touche pas à ma Mère
January 10 - Our Lady of Sorrows ( Italy, 1546) - Saint Gregory of Nyssa Mary spoke to me on the hill of apparitions at Medjugorje It all happened in Medjugorje during Holy Week 2010. I am 39 years old [...] surprise to hear Mary speak to me on the hill of apparitions! She told me that she and Jesus loved me as I was, and that I was precious to them! I broke down in tears, overwhelmed by a torrent of Love, a feeling [...] he let me suffer so much? I lost my job several times. In March of last year, seeing that I was sinking deeper and deeper and in danger of dying, my cousin and my aunts insisted that I go to Medjugorje
January 9 - Baptism of the Lord - Virgin of the Annunciation (Italy, 1490) - Pauline Jaricot (d. 1862), founder of the Work for the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Mary was in communion with [...] with all the events of Jesus' life Mary was apparently not present at the Jordan at the time of Jesus' baptism, but she communed with the significance of that event by her whole life. Pope John Paul II [...] II made the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan the first luminous mystery of the Rosary. The Jordan River had a symbolic role as the border with the promised land of Canaan (Joshua 6). To immerse oneself in
