August 14 – Madonna del Sasso (Locarno, Switzerland, 1480) - Saint Maximilian Kolbe A Rosary in Bobby Kennedy’s hands When presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot in a California hotel on June
August 25 – Mary, Health of the Sick - Saint Louis, King of France (d. 1270) Today the Queen of the World took me out of Purgatory In Rome, on the day of the Assumption, a woman entered the basilica erected
today. It was given to the Church by Saint Dominic, who had received it from the Blessed Virgin as a means of converting the Albigensians and other sinners. … Saint Dominic, seeing that the gravity of people's [...] August 8 – Our Lady of Laeken (Belgium, IX century) - Saint Dominic of Guzman The weapon that can reform the world It was only in the year 1214 that the Church received the Rosary in its present form and [...] know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world?" - "Oh, my Lady," answered Saint Dominic, "you know far better than I do, because next to your Son Jesus Christ you have always been
July 30 – Our Lady Promoter of Peace (Le Puy, France) - Saint Peter Chrysologus (d. 451) If we forget to pray to Mary, we lose our identity Since the recent war against Isis, more and more women in Sy
July 31 – Ethiopian Church: Feast of the Densata (Mary’s Conception) - Saint Ignatius of Loyola More and more Swiss soldiers go to Lourdes each year In Switzerland, Bishop Alain de Raemy is the head of
August 1 – Marian shrine of Hodegas (Constantinople) - Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (d. 1787) What a beautiful site for a Marian shrine! The small seaside village of Poponguine in Senegal has been [...] famous Black Madonna from the neighboring province of Normandy, Our Lady of Deliverance, as patron saint of the shrine he wanted to see built. A Norman benefactor provided a replica statue and it was installed
(Italy, 1716) - Saint John Vianney, Cure of Ars Our Lady guards over you! For more than forty years, the devil tormented the Curé of Ars (Saint John Mary Vianney, universal patron saint of priests), rattling
choir loft, near the painting of Saint Joseph. It stopped on the altar steps, on the side where the Gospel is read, in a chair like that of Saint Anne. But it was not Saint Anne who was in this chair, it [...] July 19 – First apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Catherine Labouré in Paris (France, July 19, 1830) In a single bound, I was at Our Lady's feet! I heard a faint noise, like the rustling of a silk [...] whole world convulsed by all sorts of calamities.” Our Lady looked very sad when she said all that. Saint Catherine Labouré (1806-1876), a French religious sister, member of the Daughters of Charity in Paris
July 23 – Saint Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373) The demon shouted: “I have a complaint about a woman!” (I) After the death of her son, Saint Bridget was transported to a vast and magnificent palace. There [...] judgment, surrounded by an innumerable court of Angels and Saints. Near Him was His Most Holy Mother, who listened attentively to the judgment. Saint Bridget saw, at the feet of the Judge, looking like a newborn [...] Mother, snatched her up, covered her with her powerful protection, and presented her to you." Life of Saint Bridget , Volume II chapter XXXI
July 15 - Maronites and Syriacs: Feast of Mary Mediatrix - Saint Bonaventure Never had she looked so beautiful! On July 16, 1858, Bernadette (the seer of Our Lady of Lourdes) felt mysteriously drawn to
