pointed out to the crowd, turning round: "Look at the sun!" At that moment thousands of individuals witnessed a miraculous vision. According to a local newspaper, “Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose [...] 13, 1917, in Fatima, Mary kept her promise (I) In July 1917, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, the three visionary children of Fatima, Portugal, announced Our Lady's promise to give a public miracle in Fatima [...] could believe in. This prediction spread rapidly throughout Portugal, so that on October 13, at noon, a crowd estimated at between 50,000 and 70,000 people was gathered. The weather was rainy and the onlookers

of the Lord – Annunciation to Mary Today, Ukraine and Russia are being consecrated to Mary! Today, Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, during the Celebration of Penance [...] “stop the bloodshed.” “Fatima has a special bond, at least as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, with Russia and also with every conflict that takes place in the world,” Pezzi said. He added: “Certainly [...] for deciding to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary: “Let us entrust to the Immaculate Heart of Mary all our sufferings and hopes for peace in our martyred country.” The Archbishop

Patroness of Brazil, a title officially recognized by the Brazilian government, in a ceremony attended by over one million people. Currently, the shrine receives eight million visitors a year. On October 12 [...] São Paulo State, Brazil. The men first discovered the body of the statue and, moments later were able to retrieve its head, a little deeper in the river. They paid homage to her by calling her "Nossa Senhora [...] 7 – The Santa Casa of Ephesus is transferred to Loreto (Italy, 1295) – Foundation of the Legion of Mary in Dublin (Ireland, 1921) – Apparition of Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil, September 1717) Our Lady

gradually lost her mind and found herself committed to a psychiatric facility where she died in 1972. Among her ten children, a daughter, Mary, became a nun and took the name Sister Angela Maria. Eager to [...] Roberto Ferruzzi met a 13-year-old girl, Angelina Cian. Moved by the way she looked after her little brother, a tiny baby at the time, the painter decided to represent them together in a beautiful painting [...] gentleness and received the first prize in 1897. From that moment on, the painting was an incredible success and was given a religious connotation. With her face full of sweetness and the sleeping baby in her

temple: “There is a group of onlookers. Amongst them a little old man, bent with age and limping, makes his way leaning on a stick. He must be very old, I would say over eighty. He goes near Mary and asks Her [...] and like a thirsty soul, She takes in the words of Anna of Phanuel, who being a woman, has mercy on Her suffering and promises Her that the Eternal Father will soothe the hour of sorrow with a supernatural [...] Her to give him the Child for one moment. Mary satisfies him, smiling. Simeon, whom I always thought belonged to the sacerdotal class, and is instead a simple believer, at least according to his garments

December 19 - Saint Mary of Remedies (Portugal) The Rosary can change the course of history The Virgin Mary, during her apparitions, encouraged the world to say this prayer: "Say the Rosary every day to [...] the very moment of the apparitions at Île Bouchard (central France) during which Our Lady asked four children to pray the Rosary for France, the political situation was completely restored in a matter of [...] peace returned. Countless saints and popes have recommended the faithful recitation of the Rosary as a sure way to transform our soul into the likeness of Christ. This prayer is so powerful that it has changed

(France) Mary’s Timing Jesus says to Mary that His “hour” has not yet come. On an immediate level, this means that He does not simply act and decide by His own lights, but always in harmony with the Father’s [...] solidly situated in a precise historical context tied to a liturgical date - and just so it is the beginning of the new liturgy in “spirit and truth”. When at this juncture Jesus speaks to Mary of His hour, He [...] word and sacrament. Jesus’ hour, the hour of His glory, begins at the moment of the Cross, and its historical setting is the moment when the Passover lambs are slaughtered - it is just then that Jesus,

(France) Mary’s Timing Jesus says to Mary that His "hour" has not yet come. On an immediate level, this means that He does not simply act and decide by His own lights, but always in harmony with the Father's [...] solidly situated in a precise historical context tied to a liturgical date - and just so it is the beginning of the new liturgy in "spirit and truth". When at this juncture Jesus speaks to Mary of His hour, He [...] word and sacrament. Jesus' hour, the hour of His glory, begins at the moment of the Cross, and its historical setting is the moment when the Passover lambs are slaughtered - it is just then that Jesus,

Bethlehem Son of Mary and Son of the Most High "The time came for Mary to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there [...] These words touch our hearts every time we hear them. This was the moment that the angel had foretold at Nazareth: "you will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be [...] called the Son of the Most High" (Lk 1:31). This was the moment that Israel had been awaiting for centuries, through many dark hours-the moment that all mankind was somehow awaiting, in terms as yet i

(1749) - Fraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Notre Dame of Victories Church (Paris, 1836) Consecrate Your Parish to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary (I) The parish of Notre Dame of Victories [...] reciting the prayers without understanding what I was saying. After reciting the Sanctus, I stopped for a moment, seeking to recollect myself; so frightened had I become by my strange state of mind, I said to [...] not in a normal state to consecrate. Oh my God, deliver me from this unhappy distraction!" Hardly had I uttered this prayer in my heart when I very distinctly heard these words spoken to me in a clear and