trunk with him and signaled to a taxi and gave the driver his address. The driver had a grim face and the strength of Hercules. He grabbed the trunk and set in on the seat close to him and he said in a dry [...] October 8 - Mary, Mother of Hungary The Messenger of the Mother of God (I) In the suburbs of Paris, there lived a well known doctor named Louis Granpas. He was known for his great medical skills and his benevolence [...] astonished when the fellow hit the gas and raced down the street in the opposite direction. The doctor opened the door and ordered the driver to stop. But he didn’t listen and carried on down the street at a
trunk with him and signaled to a taxi and gave the driver his address. The driver had a grim face and the strength of Hercules. He grabbed the trunk and set in on the seat close to him and he said in a dry [...] October 8 - Mary, Mother of Hungary The Messenger of the Mother of God (I) In the suburbs of Paris, there lived a well known doctor named Louis Granpas. He was known for his great medical skills and his benevolence [...] astonished when the fellow hit the gas and raced down the street in the opposite direction. The doctor opened the door and ordered the driver to stop. But he didn't listen and carried on down the street at a
XIII, "in the secret of his heart," consecrated his person and his Kingdom to Mary, and he and the Queen, Anne of Austria, multiplied prayers and pilgrimages to obtain an heir who had been awaited for 22 [...] King Louis XIII consecrated France to Mary (1638) Feast of the Assumption of Mary: A major national holiday in France In 1636, the Blessed Virgin asked Mother Anne Marie of Jesus Crucified, a stigmatized French [...] Our Lady ( Notre Dame ) of Paris, and one to Our Lady of Victories. The apparition was quickly recognized as authentic, and the Queen was notified of the Virgin Mary’s request. Brother Fiacre completed
” he said. “And then I don’t know how it started 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 [...] graveyard shift and looking for a place to file a report. He decided to pull into the 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 [...] refers to each medal by the name of the woman. In his police bag are the rosaries he uses to pray when he gets a few quiet moments during long night shifts. “Rain or shine, hot and cold, I will see her. I
– Virgin Mary of Barbana Island (6th century) - Saint Theodore the Studite The great international Marian pilgrimage of Benin From August 16-18, 2019, about seven thousand faithful, bishops and Catholic [...] pilgrimage to Our Lady of Dasse-Zoumé was: "Mary, model of all missionary commitment." Delegations from the Catholic Church of France, Togo, Ivory Coast and Nigeria were invited to this Marian pilgrimage [...] Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, but also France and Italy, make the pilgrimage, initiated in 1954 by Mgr Louis Parisot, a missionary in Dahomey (former name of Benin) from 1909 to 1912, then from 1919 to
Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) Joseph understood Mary's silence A shadow crept into Joseph's happiness. Mary was now lost to him: he would be alone, and she too would be alone forever [...] salvation. She would give the Messiah her flesh and her features; he, the son of David and a carpenter, would give him a name in the royal line of David. Faced with Mary's pregnancy, Joseph responded with the greatest [...] world and his infinitely free choice to intimately involve a woman in his work of re-Creation. And since it was God himself who made this choice, since it was he who loved, wanted and prepared Mary, let
Apostle - Leo XIII consecrates the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, "one" with the Heart of Mary (1899) Mary leads us to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Every morning, a young girl of about 12—a sweet, silent [...] quite a long time, in front of a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. Then she lights a candle and kisses the statue of Mary. She exits the church, quietly. She does that every morning. Bishop Atanasios Firas Dardar [...] So one day he decided to make her acquaintance. Her name is Sarah, she lives in Abo Sker, one of the most popular Shiite neighborhoods in Basra, and she sells plastic bags for a living. As evidenced by
period: "I saw a beautiful lady with a veil full of light, who looked at me with a smile and told me her name was Mary. As I had given up all religious practice, I didn't think of the Blessed Virgin at all [...] mysterious star and showed me the Orthodox icon of the Virgin Mary with a little star on her shoulder. That's when I realized it was her." Interview by Lætitia d'Hérouville https://frejustoulon.fr/marie-ma-gui [...] (1944) A miracle of Mary, "Our Lady of Brightness" (1) When Mylène, a young Frenchwoman living in Provence, was 18, her parents separated. Overcome by shock, she developed asthma and regularly had to cope
to institute under the name of the Holy Rosary, which was disseminated through the length and breadth of the earth by him and his pupils. Guided, in fact, by divine inspiration and grace, he foresaw that [...] St. Dominic - piety, faith, and union began to return, and the projects and devices of the heretics to fall to pieces. Many wanderers also returned to the way of salvation, and the wrath of the impious was [...] remember how great trouble and grief God's Holy Church suffered from the Albigensian heretics, who sprung from the sect of the later Manicheans, and who filled the South of France and other portions of the
January 1 – Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God We hail you, O Mary Mother of God! I see the assembly of the saints, all zealously gathered together, invited by the holy Mother of God, Mary, Ever-Virgin. I was [...] “Behold how fair, and how pleasant it is, when brothers dwell together as one!” (Ps. 133:1). Hail, we say, O holy and mystic Trinity, Who have called us together in the church dedicated to Mary, Mother of God [...] contained, Mother and Virgin, through whom it is said in the holy Gospels: “Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord” (Mt. 21:9). Hail, you who held the Uncontainable One in your holy and virginal womb
