crying. Thinking that she was lost, the children asked her what her name was. She answered, "Mary of Heaven." At first the Virgin Mary appeared to the four girls every evening looking like a child. As time [...] the Archbishop of Toulouse, who chose to bury the whole affair. Yet the interest and fervor have never been extinguished, and for 160 years there has always been someone to carry the torch. Today, the Friends [...] March 18 – Our Lady of Mercy (Italy, 1586) Mary of Heaven One summer evening in 1859, near the Picheloup Woods in Arnaud-Guilhem (France), four girls aged 8 to 9, met a little girl between the age of 4
apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac, in 1531, and the roses that bloomed in winter well before the season. A prodigy which the Virgin Mary explained by saying, at the [...] opened his tilma the Virgin Mary has been venerated "Do not be surprised if Castilian roses bloom in winter!" In this enigmatic image, Pope Francis referred to the maternity of Mary manifested during her a [...] apparition: "This variety of roses is a proof and a sign that you will carry to the bishop ..." Juan Diego collected the roses in his "tilma" (woolen tunic), and when he opened it before the bishop, the image
before and after their medical treatments. The medical train is named after Saint Lukas, a priest and doctor who operated in Krasnoyarsk during WWII. St Lukas survived the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin’s [...] gulags, and was beatified in the year 2000 by the Orthodox Church. He had a strong devotion to the Virgin Mary and never failed to pray to her before operating on a patient. Adapted from Newsweek and Aleteia [...] lasts an average of two days, and during that time the doctors and nurses on board provide rural populations with basic medical care, X-ray scans, prescriptions and referrals to seek specialist help. Doctors
Oak (Italy) Mama Mary, you are truly a Mother! My name is Floribert Lumpungu. I am 68 years old and I live in Lubumbashi, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Blessed Virgin Mary is truly a Mother [...] me smile when I think about it, and I can only exclaim with great gratitude: Mama Mary, you are truly a Mother! And this is not the only time in my life that Mama Mary has interceded for me! Floribert [...] kept moaning in pain until about 3 am that night. I was exhausted and dehydrated. Then I thought of praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and told her: "Holy Mother, I can't take it anymore! Can you, for the
Raise your eyes and look about; they all gather and come to you—Your sons from afar, your daughters in the arms of their nurses. Then you shall see and be radiant, your heart shall throb and overflow. For [...] to you. Caravans of camels shall cover you, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All from Sheba shall come bearing gold and frankincense, and heralding the praises of the Lord"(Isaiah 60:1-6). "May he rule from [...] December 16 – Our Lady of Good Deliverance Mary in the heart of Israel’s longing for the Messiah The longing for the Messiah in Mary’s prayer was the longing of all nations as the prophet Isaiah strongly
France, "in the secret of his heart", consecrated his person and his Kingdom to Mary, and with the Queen, Anne of Austria, he multiplied prayers and pilgrimages to obtain the heir they had awaited for 22 years [...] achievements. Mary asked for three novenas: one to Our Lady of Cotignac in Provence, another to Our Lady of Paris, and a last one to Our Lady of Victories. The apparition was recognized as authentic and the Virgin [...] ) – Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich The Virgin Mary responds to the Consecration of France (I) In 1636, the Blessed Virgin asked through Mother Anne-Marie of Jesus Crucified, a French nun stigmatist whom
multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of the Lord" (Is 60:1-6). "His [...] river to the ends of the earth" (...) "May his name be blessed forever, and endure in the sight of the sun. In him shall be blessed every race in the world, and all nations call him blessed (Ps 72:1-17). [...] felt by the whole world and all the nations, as the prophet Isaiah forcefully reminds us in his messianic oracles: "I have shaped you; I have made a covenant of the people and a light to the nations" (Is
multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of the Lord" (Is 60:1-6). "His [...] river to the ends of the earth" (...) "May his name be blessed forever, and endure in the sight of the sun. In him shall be blessed every race in the world, and all nations call him blessed (Ps 72:1-17). [...] felt by the whole world and all the nations, as the prophet Isaiah forcefully reminds us in his messianic oracles: "I have shaped you; I have made a covenant of the people and a light to the nations" (Is
confirmed the content of this bull, namely the "sabbatical privilege." Few indulgences have in fact received so many and solemn pontifical approvals. Suffice it to quote the acts and approvals of the popes: Clement [...] August 12, 1530), Paul III (in 1530 and 1549), Pius IV (in 1561), St Pius V (Bull Superna provisione from February 18, 1566), St Pius X in 1910, Benedict XV in 1916, and Pius XII in 1950. St John of the Cross [...] death, happily recalled "how the Mother of God of Carmel, on Saturday, came with her help and favor to Purgatory, and how she delivered the souls of religious or people who had worn her holy scapular." Fatima
on August 4, 1903, he took the name Pius X and was enthroned on August 9, 1903. After he died in the Vatican on August 20, 1914, his remains were placed in a simple and unadorned tomb in the crypt below [...] people love the Virgin Mary: with the encyclical Ad diem illum (On the Immaculate Conception), published on February 2, 1904, Pope St. Pius X promoted true devotion to Mary and urged all the faithful to [...] St. Pius X promoted true devotion to Mary The great Pope Pius X, who ushered in the 20th century, was canonized the same year that the dogma of the Assumption of Mary was proclaimed, in 1954. Elected Pope
