and guidance.” Adapted from article by Domini Torevillas for the Philippine Star, published June 8, 2020

October 24 - Our Lady Consoler of the Afflicted (Russia) - Our Lady of Regla (Cuba) - Saint Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (d. 1870

242 miles of French roads last summer, tracing a giant "M for Mary," from June 1st to September 13, 2020, stopping at five major French sites of Marian apparitions. Pilgrims walked behind a statue of Our

People of God during its sojourn on earth” (Lumen gentium, 68). Pope Francis, Angelus , August 15, 2020

October 29 - Our Lady of Follina (Italy, 1150) Rosary Crusades in America Two bishops have called for Rosary Crusades in their respective dioceses in the month of August, asking Catholics to pray dail

October 13 - 7th apparition in Fatima: the Miracle of the Sun (Portugal, 1917) On October 13, 1917, in Fatima, Mary kept her promise (I) In July 1917, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, the three visionary

October 17 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe founds the Militia of the Immaculate (Rome, 1917) Like Mary, the Carmelite convent is at the heart of the Church The Magnificat is both Mary’s hymn and a hymn of Go

faithful flocked to this bucolic village in the summer of 2020. Mass was celebrated there by the Archbishop of Rennes, Pierre d'Ornellas. 2020 also marks the 70th anniversary of the crowning of the statue

October 12 – Our Lady of the Pillar (Spain) - Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil) I met the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje In the summer of 2015, I was in Spain enjoying a drink on the beach at sunset with some

women. Cardinal Pietro Parolin The Vatican Secretary of State Excerpts from his homily of August 15, 2020, in Lourdes, on the feast of the Assumption