you.” Founded by Saint Vincent de Paul in 1625, today Vincentians regularly say Mass and hear confessions at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in the heart of Paris. Saint Catherine Labouré [...] of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul when she received three apparitions from the Blessed Virgin Mary, a vision of Christ present in the Eucharist, and a mystical encounter in which Saint Vincent de Paul [...] tensions on every continent.” The Miraculous Medal is a sacramental inspired by the Marian apparition to Saint Catherine Labouré in Paris in 1830. The Virgin Mary appeared to her as the Immaculate Conception,

Mother Saint Michael, a woman of rare ability and a teacher crowned with success, was running a Catholic boarding school for girls. Although the bishop declined to send any sisters, Mother Saint Michael [...] 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 and favorable answer to this [...] against all odds, received a response on April 29, 1809. The pope granted her request, and Mother Saint Michael commissioned a statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor holding the Christ Child. Her bishop blessed

death touched the whole world, and France in particular. He was assassinated in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, the very town where Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort died a little more than 300 years ago... But right [...] together on the doctrine of Father de Montfort for his doctorate. He was one of the best experts of Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort. He also was a holy priest. He was the head of the Montfortians in [...] France, but also the people of God, to rediscover the treasure, the importance, the relevance of Saint Louis de Montfort today. I think that we must see this death in the light of God. It is a painful

and rising up the cross of Christ. Saint Simon the Shoemaker or the Tanner lived in Egypt towards the end of the tenth century A.D. He was the contemporary of the saintly bishop Abraam the Syrian, who was [...] than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna" (Mt 5:28-29). The icon of Saint Simon depicts him deprived of his right eye. Saint Simon led an ascetic life, praying and eating very little-he once said to [...] November 17 - Our Lady of Zion (Queen of the Jews, 1393) The Caliph Who Defied the Coptic Church (I) Saint Simon was an ordinary man whose simple faith was of the kind that moves mountains. Humble in his

keep a vigilant eye on those young men. Later, what the saint feared would happen did happen—all those novices lost the grace of their vocation. Saint Philip Neri used to say to penitents while hearing c [...] 10th apparition in Lourdes If you want to obtain the gift of perseverance, love and serve Our Lady! Saint Francis of Borgia, while asking his novices some questions, noticed that some of them did not share

Commitment with Mary Bernadette Soubirous is the saint of Lourdes … the saint of penance… the saint of poverty. Our Lady’s child visionary is also to many the saint of family. A string of seemingly endless back

Virgin Mary be there when I die? Jesus does not come alone. He brings all the saints with him. Since the role of the saints and of the deceased’s relatives is to welcome the dying person and to gently witness [...] distrusts the Mother of Jesus and the saints, the Virgin Mary stays in the background. Until the intelligence of the soul accepts the reality of the communion of saints, Mary respects their position and lets

Commitment with Mary Bernadette Soubirous is the saint of Lourdes ... the saint of penance... the saint of poverty. Our Lady's child visionary is also to many the saint of family. A string of seemingly endless

future times, the visible representatives of the invisible Angels will be what Saint Louis-Marie called the great saints of the end times, in other words men and women fully penetrated by a Marian spirit [...] January 27 – Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) Those times are not too far off Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort and Marthe Robin have both stressed the increasingly important role that the [...] (Ct 6: 4). They will be the last crusaders, the last bearers of the cross of love... According to Saint Faustina (1905-1938), these times when the angelic kingdom of Mary will be felt more and more—and

attentive to their progress. But soon what the Jesuit saint feared came to pass: all those novices lost the grace of their vocation. Around the same time, Saint Philip Neri was fond of telling his penitents in [...] Maisonneuve (d. 1676) "If you want to obtain the gift of perseverance, love Mary" As the Spanish Jesuit Saint Francis Borgia (1510-1572) was questioning his novices one day, he realized that some among them lacked