February 24 - Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Eastern Churches, 1st c.) - 8th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) The Virgin gave him back his perfect eyesight The Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Estep
March 3 - 8th and last apparition in Banneaux (Belgium, 1933) - 14th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) Without Mary, the Church would lose its human dimension In Burkina Faso, the second Catholic W
March 1 - Our Lady of Machaby (Italy, 1800) - 12th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) How the Virgin Mary freed prisoners from bandits The Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows is located near the village
February 21 - 1st Sunday of Lent - Saint Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church (d. 1072) - 6th apparition in Lourdes (France) Hoping against all hope with Mary at the foot of the Cross One of the texts o
February 18 – 3rd apparition of Lourdes - Feast of Saint Bernadette (France only) When Bernadette confided in the Virgin Mary Bernadette's religious vocation was sparked in an extraordinary way, but h
February 22 - The Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle - Blessed Isabella of France (d. 1270), founder of a convent dedicated to the "Humility of Our Lady" The Rosary is a weapon against our common enemy In
February 20 – Saint Jacinta Marto, visionary of Fatima (d. 1920) Through Christ, we have become children of Mary The Blessed Virgin Mary is the only human actor in the history of Salvation. Mary saw i
February 17 – Ash Wednesday - The Seven Holy Founders of the Servants of Mary - 1941: Saint Maximilien Kolbe is arrested The Virgin presented two crowns Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a 20th-century Polish p
February 15 – Hypapante Feast (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple), Byzantine rite The Rosary helped father and son grow closer Former Haverhill Mayor James Rurak recently published “The Rosary: A Tr
February 16 – Our Lady of the Pact of Mercy (Abyssinia) - Shrove Tuesday Pope asks Mary Immaculate to watch over Rome Pope Francis made a surprise visit to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in R
