corruptness and all the sores of our defiled souls: for which reason it behooved Him to be born by a new order, who brought to men's bodies the new gift of unsullied purity. For the uncorrupt nature of Him that [...] overcoming the allurements of the flesh to bestow on us in abundant measure the power of chastity: in order that the virginity which in others cannot be retained in child-bearing, might be attained by them

After quieting his fear, he said in a soft voice that a divine order bade him to appear, the reasons of which were obscure to Gregory, in order to reveal the truth of correct belief and to encourage him to [...] cherished. He also said that this fitting vision had vanished again from his sight. He was immediately ordered to write down this divine revelation and later proclaim it in the church. In this way it became for

hadn't drowned or wasn't hurt. John said he was under the protection of the Virgin Mary. He chose the order of the Carmelites, out of love for Mary. The Carmelite brothers helped him to attend the University [...] thanksgiving for the grace which (the Lord) has given him to make him worthy to belong to the said order (the Carmel), under the protection of His most Blessed Mother.” Chosen by Saint Teresa of Avila and [...] apostolic vicar, John of the Cross became the confessor of the Carmel of Avila and the reformer of the order. After that he founded several Carmelite monasteries for men. Although he was younger than her, Saint

has this to say about the constant protection of the Virgin on the Order: "Since the time of Saint John of God, our founder, the Order has constantly experienced her presence and protection. Mary has always

the similar practice in the Eastern Church, the laity usually used knotted rope.(...) In 1198, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives began saying the Rosary of the Holy Trinity [...] on nine beads. The prayer around which the chaplet was structured is the Trisagion. In 1233, the Order of the Servants of Mary, known as the Servites, instituted their rosary known as the Rosary of the [...] the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. The form is used with a chaplet of seven decades. In 1422, the Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscans) established the Rosary of the Seven Joys of Our Lady, also known as the

in 1212 and was elected Vicar General of the Carmelite Order in 1215. He begged the Virgin Mary by fervent prayers and tears to defend this Order, which was devoted to her, and she appeared in a dream [...] by a dazzling light and accompanied by a large number of blessed spirits, with the scapular of the order in her hand. This scapular she gave him with the words: "Hoc erit tibi et cunctis Carmelitis privilegium

of Racconigi (1487-1540), whose feast day is celebrated on September 4, was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic (O.P.). Catherine Mattei was born in the Piedmont region of Northwest Italy, in 1487 [...] Child Jesus said to her, "I espouse you in faith, hope, and charity." Later, Catherine joined the Order of Preachers as a tertiary. Her visions became more frequent, and she received the stigmata. Throughout

and future as souls who belong to her, she includes them all in order to unite them to the soul of her Son and her own soul, and in order to avail herself of every soul for praising, exalting and magnifying [...] Notice that the Blessed Virgin does not say "I magnify," but "My soul doth magnify the Lord," in order to show that she magnifies Him from the utmost depths of her Heart and with her whole inner strength

His brethren in all things, and to take a Body like us . This is why Mary is truly presupposed, in order that He may take it from her, and offer it for us as His own. And this Isaiah pointed to in his prophecy [...] Virgin, while Gabriel is sent to her—not simply to a virgin, but to a virgin betrothed to a man, in order that by means of the betrothed man he might shew that Mary was really a human being.’ And for this [...] swaddling clothes unless it has previously been naturally brought forth. …This He did, and so it was, in order that Himself taking what was ours and offering it as a sacrifice, He might do away with it, and conversely

and holy horsemen, saints Theodore, George, and Mercurius), and the Holy Innocent exterminated on orders given by Herod. Our Lady asked the monks to associate the people to this miracle and a pilgrimage [...] confirmed by the geographer Al-Maqrîzî (d. 1441), the monastery was destroyed in 1438 during Ramadan, by order of the Mamluk Sultan Barsbay al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dan. Father René Laurentin ( French theologian