September 28 - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, France, 1854) Prayer to Mary Holy Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world its true light, Jesus, your son--the Son of God. You abandoned yourself [...] yourself completely to God's call and thus became a wellspring of the goodness which flows forth from him. Show us the goodness of Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, so that we too can [...] can become capable of true love and be fountains of living water in the midst of a thirsty world.
Cathedral, the whole population of Lvov knelt down before the image of Our Lady of Clemency. Right at the beginning of the battle, when the left flank of the Polish Army began to give way, the sky was suddenly [...] live Jesus Christ! Long live the Blessed Virgin Mary!" This was on the 25th of August - the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa. [...] number of witnesses, gave victory to John Sobieski, who had come to the aid of the city besieged by a Turkish army of overwhelming numbers. With three hundred thousand men against six thousand hussars, the
appeared three times in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, to Saint Catherine Laboure, then a novice. Our Lady asked St Catherine to have a medal struck after a [...] the subject of many of the messages of the Virgin in various other apparitions, such as Lourdes and Fatima where Our Lady called for an increase in the prayer of the Rosary, declaring it one of the conditions [...] Aug 17 - Our Lady of Squares (France, 1664) Devotions to Mary Associated with Apparitions There are three main Marian devotions closely associated with apparitions of the Blessed Virgin. An especially
Aug 16 - Our Lady of the Barrier (Lille, France, 1566) - Saint Joachim Anne Gave Birth to the Sovereign Joachim chose Anne for his wife, a fine woman, worthy of the highest praise. Indeed, just as the [...] grace (the meaning of the name Anne), gave birth to the sovereign (the meaning of the name Mary). Indeed, Mary was truly made the sovereign of all creatures, she who was the Mother of the Creator. She was [...] and a vow gave birth to Samuel, the latter in turn, similarly, and by supplications and promises, was awarded by God to bear the Mother of God. On this point, she yielded nothing to any other illustrious
July 13 - Our Lady of All Graces Never Forget to Say Your Rosary Everyday In travelling the countryside or while you are crossing the street, driving your car, taking the subway, bedridden in the hospital [...] lips of millions of all ages, races and nations. How many children learned it as their first prayer? How many of the dying whispered it as their ultimate testament? The Hail Mary is a synthesis of two first [...] stuck in prison, don't forget to say your Rosary every day. Let the beads slip between your fingers; they also slip between the fingers of the Holy Father at the Vatican, those of a grandmother in Alaska, a
26 - Our Lady of Caravaggio (Italy, 1432) - St Philip Neri (d. 1594) Would you like to know if this is the Virgin Mary? Saint Philip Neri was often consulted by bishops to judge the authenticity of mystics [...] the apparition spoke to her of God, but remembering the promise she had made to her spiritual director she spat in her face. The apparition immediately disappeared in a cloud of sulphur smoke: it was [...] visions. Since they sought his opinion, Philip went to see the young sister. He looked at her warmly and said, "Sister, I didn't want to see you, I wanted to see the saint." And the nun replied, "But I am the
de Verthamon. The renown of the shrine Our Lady of Celles spread widely and attracted believers from the entire region and even from Spain. The pilgrimage, which takes place to this day at the restored [...] May 29 - Our Lady of the Ardents (Arras, France, 1095) Warn the People to Change Their Lives (II) The apparition added that the four women responsible for the public disorder must do penance. She asked [...] home to the farm and asked his brother and sister to go back and retrieve his spade. The youngsters found it "standing straight up with three cross-shaped oak leaves coming out of the top of the handle."
May 28 - Our Lady of Carmine (Italy, 663) Warn the People to Change Their Lives (I) In 1686, a curious happening shook up the village of Celles in the region of Ariege, near Foix: four women violently [...] saw a white pigeon in front of him. As the bird got closer to the boy's farm, near a fountain, it changed into "a six or seven-year old girl dressed in white" (statement of July 21, 1686). In his second [...] said that he first saw the pigeon "three times in front of him," then the girl just "five or six feet from him." John was afraid and he tried to flee. "Do not be afraid, my child," he heard a voice say
May 27 - Our Lady of Naples (Italy, 533) Everyone Should Have a Genuine Devotion to Her Perfect model of this apostolic spiritual life is the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Apostles. While on earth her [...] attentive to her Son's brothers still on pilgrimage amid the dangers and difficulties of life, until they arrive at the happiness of the fatherland." Everyone should have a genuine devotion to her and entrust [...] her life was like that of any other, filled with labours and the cares of the home; always, however, she remained intimately united to her Son and cooperated in an entirely unique way in the Savior's work
May 3 - Our Lady of Kiev Consecration to Jesus through Mary (II) God endowed Mary with the privileges and prerogatives of: 1) The Divine Maternity, sharing with the Father the parenthood of Jesus, true [...] Jesus. Our Lady was appointed spiritual loving mother of all humans and the Church; merciful human advocate and intercessor with the Father; universal mediatrix and distributrix to the world of the divine [...] wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit; and providentially governing Queen of Heaven and earth. In short, we consecrate ourselves to Jesus through Mary because, immaculate, humble, open, full of grace and in
