Immaculate Heart of Mary is also central to the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal (20th century), and continued to take an increasingly important place in the messages to the visionary Lucia [...] 17 - Message of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St Margaret Mary (1689) The very deep union of the Two Hearts Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was already important in the 12th century, to saints like [...] depictions of Jesus pointing to his Heart through his chest opened by the lance. From 1673 to 1675, the apparitions of Christ to St Margaret Mary Alacoque brought a deeper focus to the pierced Heart of Christ
June 4 – Pentecost – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1503) - 1979 : First journey of John Paul II to Poland, to the Shrine of Czestochowa On Pentecost, Mary is waiting Mary's ardent prayer attracts the living [...] Jesus. Mary, our Mother, will bring us to glory. She invites us to enter into the mystery of the glory of Pentecost. On this day of Pentecost, Mary is waiting: as she did at the Annunciation, and at the [...] chose to found his Church. Mary leads to Jesus. She is also the one who brings us back to him. We need her, in order to live out and put into practice what we have discovered in the living presence of Jesus
March 15 - Our Lady Under-the-Ground (Chartres, France) - Our Lady of Fossolovara (Italy) Be eager to grow, like Jesus, with the Holy Family! As we meditate on the mystery of the hidden life, we must [...] years of His missionary life. By remaining under the authority of Joseph and Mary in this way, our Lord invites us to do the same: it was in Nazareth, at the school of His parents, that the seed of divine [...] order to bear all the fruits that God has the right to expect from us. We must all be very eager to grow, like Jesus and with Jesus, "in wisdom, in stature and in grace, in the eyes of God and of men" (Lk
secret to her son. Frightened, the child ardently prayed to the heavenly Mother. He also went to see a saintly hermit, who restored his hope: "Have faith: before the Lady of Heaven, the chains of hell cannot [...] transferred to Loreto (Italy, 1295) – Founding of the Legion of Mary (Dublin, Ireland, 1921) Before Mary, the chains of hell cannot stand A man and his wife, after their children had grown up, resolved to live [...] with grief, fell at the feet of the Virgin Mary, begging her. The Mother of the King of Glory did not ignore his pleas—the child was returned and received communion—Our Lady had delivered him! As soon as
6 – Black Virgin of Mende (France, 1857) – Ingolstadt apparition to Father Jakob Rem (Germany, 1604) The Black Madonna of Mende Mende, in the department of Lozère and of the region of Occitanie in southern [...] anniversary of Our Lady’s coronation, in 1944, Mende was occupied by two thousand Germans. During the traditional August 15th procession in honor of the Queen of Heaven, something of a political nature [...] the Queen of Mende’s altar, like that of many Black Madonnas, bears the inscription “privileged altar”. Special graces are given here. Tradition says that the statue of the Virgin was brought to Mende from
Shrine of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Santuario dell’ Annunziata) in Trapani, Sicily, some 45 miles west of Palermo. The work of an 8th-century Cypriot sculptor, the original statue seems to have remained [...] Apparitions to Françoise Romaine Macuys in Skiemoniai (Lithuania, 1962, devotion encouraged by Bishop Preikas) The Madonna and Child of Trapani The Madonna and Child of Trapani is venerated in a chapel of the [...] the failure of the Seventh Crusade (13th c.), when one of the Knights Templar sailed for Italy taking the statue with him, possibly to save it from profanation by the Turks. During the course of the voyage
Mary. On the day of their last visit together, 28 September 1615, Father Rem had been praying in the chapel of the monastery before an image of the Virgin Mary under the title of “Our Lady of the Snows.” When [...] Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna and martyr (d. 155) – Apparition of Mary the Immaculate Mother of Victory to Cäcilia Geyer (Wangen/Wigratzbad, Germany, 1938), approved The first miracle of Mary Who Unties Knots [...] couple was on the verge of a divorce. To save their marriage, Wolfgang decided to pay a visit to Father Jakob Rem, a Jesuit priest who lived at the monastery and university of Ingolstadt, located seventy
wickedness of man fallen into sin. To you who possess our Divine Will, it is given to understand this. Therefore, as our secretary, we want to reveal our secrets to you and put in your hands the scepter of command [...] excess of love for me, the Most Holy Trinity said to me: "Beloved daughter, our love for you will be overwhelming if we do not tell you our secrets. Therefore, we make you our secretary. We want to entrust [...] into our fatherly arms. Oh! how the fate of man afflicts us! Our sorrow is immense and we cannot entrust the task to anyone else. Not having the Divine Will within him, man can understand neither our sufferings
June 8 - The Immaculate Heart of Mary – Crowning of Our Lady of Le Puy (France, 1856 – this pilgrimage goes back to 5th century) Research concurs with Catholic tradition Christians honor the Loreto Shrine [...] Miracle of the Holy House of Loreto , published in 2018. This books summarizes the conclusions of a publication by Professor Andrea Nicolotti—of the University of Turin—that the falsified nature of the history [...] history of the Byzantine documents produced by the De Angelis family gives rise to strong suspicions about the credibility of their sources..." We are happy to provide this information to our readers, so
17 – Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Mary undoes the knots of depression Two months ago, I fell into depression and was having panic attacks. It was very hard. I had already made a novena to Mary [...] better. I have also become aware that I need to change certain behaviors in my life, such as knowing how to say no sometimes. And I continue to pray to Mary Undoer of Knots because prayer sustains me. Thank [...] Mary Undoer of Knots in the past and my prayers were answered, but this time I was so distressed that I didn't immediately think of doing another one. It was my sister who brought me a novena candle and the
