vision of Jesus, who said to Nahed: "Be at peace, you will have a mission that will be revealed to you in due course." All this, without ever having read the Gospel or even known who this man was who spoke

tangible way, its extraordinary effectiveness. Many popes have encouraged this devotion, and, thanks especially to Marian apparitions that have constantly urged its recitation, it has withstood the test

"the quality of the witness". "Did you see this child?" he said, quite moved, to his advisers after having questioned the visionary. Bernardette's simplicity was disarming: she foiled the traps by not seeing [...] ed on the floor and replied: "Oh no, we'd dirty them!" She could see that any other visitor would have been offered a seat immediately, unless they were poor people, which was the case. In Nevers, Bernadette

pregnant, after traveling the hundred miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the couple could certainly have stayed in the common room, like everyone else. They were not rejected because they were outcasts, [...] there, albeit wrapped in swaddling clothes, that is to say, invisibly present under the sacraments. We have no greater and more evident sign of Christ's birth than the daily consummation of his body and blood

devotion of many Catholics to Mary. In 1858, a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported having 18 visions of a beautiful “young lady” in a cave near Lourdes, which was then a provincial town. [...] as the mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin. [...] Since the 1860s, Church officials have formally declared 70 of the Lourdes healings to be miracles. The most recent case, which they confirmed

appreciate it more and more over time. Mary suffered. She might not have experienced the physical pain her Son endured, but she must have experienced tremendous emotional pain through what we call the seven

feast was placed in the octave of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary to remind Christians that they can have recourse to the intercession of the Virgin Mary in times of trial, great or small, as we learn in [...] Missal and in the Roman Martyrology. The spiritual reason to restore this feast was that the saints have, traditionally, always invoked the name of Mary. For example, Saint Bernard famously said: "Look at

as my father-in-law did but I feel happy to have my rosary on me. I like to walk down the street holding it in my hand. Since I visited Beirut in 2019, I have hung one on the rear-view mirror of my car

spirit of devotion that helps me to pray. She inspires me to seek the confidence that I would like to have. She is the figure to follow and to listen to because she is a mother who listens to us all. Colombe [...] be missing—the open gate to eternal life! Raphaël (8): Mary is the greatest of mothers. She did not have a single stain on her. Mary is a very important person—she is the "head" of Heaven after Jesus. I

first thing we do. We also made our covenant pact with her.* So many beautiful things have happened in our lives that have given me great respect for Our Lady. I naturally tend to want to do really big things