Aug 21 - The Apparition of Our Lady of Knock (Ireland, 1879) Shrine of Our Lady of Knock This apparition was different from most of the Marian apparitions in recent centuries in that no words were spoken [...] became one of the most frequented centers of pilgrimage in Ireland. Over three hundred miraculous cures have been reported there and at least a million pilgrims now visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock each [...] town of Knock, Ireland (Cnoc is Gaelic for "hill"). On a stormy August 21, 1879, the Blessed Virgin, St Joseph, and St John the Evangelist appeared in a blaze of heavenly light at the south gable of the
October 10 - Consecration of Luxembourg to Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (1666) Carried by a thousand angels, Mary saved Saint James Saint James the Greater was Saint John’s brother. Tradition says that [...] great devotion for the Virgin Mary, who in turn favored him with her special protection. Mary of Agreda, a 17 th -century Spanish nun and mystic, recounts two interventions of the Virgin to support the apostle [...] sacrifice of your life at the place where He gave His." Saint James bowed down. The angels celebrated with him the inauguration of this first shrine, which became the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
September 3 - Saint Gregory the Great, pope, doctor of the Church (d. 604) - Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) Mary was a mountain which rose above all mountains She was a [...] the dignity of her election. Was not Mary a lofty mountain, who, that she might be worthy to conceive the Word, was raised above all the choirs of angels and approached the very throne of the Godhead? [...] foretelling the superexcellent elevation of this mountain, says: And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the summit of the mountains . It was indeed a mountain on
lightning. Some people in the group of fifty spectators noticed that the light of the sunlight dimmed during the first few minutes of the conversation. Others said that the top of the budding holm oak bent down [...] under the weight of something. During Our Lady's conversation with the seers, some of the bystanders heard a whispering, like the humming of a bee. Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me? Our Lady: I want [...] ground. In front of Our Lady's right hand there was a heart encircled by thorns that seemed to pierce it. We understood that it was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, insulted by the sins of humanity and which
July 17 – Feast of Mary’s humility With Mary’s help, she carried her pregnancy to the end In 2013, Chantal, a Parisian woman, already the mother of several children, was advised to abort her child after [...] had deep trust in Mother Mary and in the power of the Rosary. Chantal’s faith helped her to carry her pregnancy to the end and give birth to a baby girl, whom they named Marie. The baby was born with Down [...] survived! Since Marie’s birth, Chantal has been involved in supporting pregnant women in crisis. This is her testimony: "One day the leader of our group called me to entrust me with the support of a pregnant
Mother Superior requested reinforcements in the form of more sisters from France. Mother Saint Michael, a woman of rare ability and a teacher crowned with success, was running a Catholic boarding school [...] the pope. The pope was a prisoner of Napoleon, and it seemed unlikely he would even receive her letter of petition. So Mother Saint Michael prayed, “O most Holy Virgin Mary, if you obtain for me a prompt [...] January 8 - Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Louisiana, USA, 1809) Homage and Veneration to Mary in New Orleans (I) In 1803, the boarding school and orphanage in a New Orleans convent founded by French Ursuline
Augustine, Doctor of the Church (d. 430) – Our Lady of Tears (Syracuse, Italy, 1953) The connection between Our Lady of Tears in Syracuse and Fatima In Syracuse, the Shrine of Our Lady of Tears (Madonna delle [...] representing the Immaculate Heart of Mary crowned with thorns and surmounted with flames (just like in Fatima), in a modest house, placed on the wall over the bed of newly-wed Angelo and Antonina Iannuso [...] the days surrounding the solemn definition of the dogma of the Assumption (November 1, 1950), Pope Pius XII personally witnessed the same miracle of the sun of Fatima that had first occurred on October
Pius X solemnly crowned the Virgin Mary as "Queen of Brazil" in 1904. But the history of the Marian devotion in Brazil dates back to the beginning of the 16th century, when the fleet of the Portuguese admiral [...] April 23 - Our Lady of la Penha (Brazil) "Brazil was born in the arms of the Holy Virgin" As John Paul II said on the centenary of the coronation of Our Lady of Aparecida in 2004, Brazil is the largest [...] the statue of the Virgin Mary he had brought with him. This is why Brazilians like to say that "Brazil was born in the arms of Mary". In fact, all the villages and ports of this new country began with the
February 21 -Birth of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) Mary’s Modesty Exerts a Gentle Sway When first He [Jesus] went out to preach, she kept apart from Him; she interfered not with His work; and, even when [...] scene, and she was a Queen upon her Son's right hand, not even then did she ask of Him to publish her name to the ends of the world, or to hold her up to the world's gaze, but she remained waiting for the [...] very day, should God so will, she will win at length her most radiant crown, and, without opposing voice, and amid the jubilation of the whole Church, she will be hailed as immaculate in her conception
February 21 -Birth of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) Mary’s Modesty Exerts a Gentle Sway When first He [Jesus] went out to preach, she kept apart from Him; she interfered not with His work; and, even when [...] scene, and she was a Queen upon her Son's right hand, not even then did she ask of Him to publish her name to the ends of the world, or to hold her up to the world's gaze, but she remained waiting for the [...] very day, should God so will, she will win at length her most radiant crown, and, without opposing voice, and amid the jubilation of the whole Church, she will be hailed as immaculate in her conception
