France, founder of the Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (d. 1505) A chocolate empire, a billionaire, and Our Lady Michele Ferrero, 89, creator of Nutella, died on February 14, 2015.

November 4 – Our Lady of Pötsch (Mariapócs) in Vienna and in Hungary Opposite the Ottoman Empire stood the Virgin Mary On November 4, 1696, an icon in the parish church of the small town of Pócs in Hungary [...] war turned out to be decisive, representing one of the worst defeats ever inflicted on the Ottoman Empire. It was a great victory where many people felt the intercession of the Mother of God. The devotion

December 24 – Vigil of the Nativity God destroyed the empire of the serpent Christ became man through the Virgin, so that the disobedience caused by the serpent should end in the same way in which it had [...] word." So he was born of her, the One of whom so many Scriptures speak. By Him God destroyed the empire of the serpent and of those who, angels or men, have become like him; and he frees from death those

September 12 – Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, instituted after the liberation of Vienna from the Ottoman Empire (1683) The feast of the Holy Name of Mary reestablished after the terrorist attacks To remind Catholics

February 16 – Our Lady of the Pact of Mercy (Former Abyssinian Empire) “I don’t know where to put Mary!” Sometimes we might be afraid to welcome the Virgin Mary into our lives. The root of this fear is

name of Christ and the Truth, offered the reunified Roman Empire to the King of kings, and like a new Apostle he proclaimed to the ends of the Empire, from Mesopotamia to Great Britain, the faith in the one [...] one God and in his Son, who took flesh for our salvation. In an edict proclaimed throughout the Empire, he declared that God alone was to be considered the cause of his victories and that he had been chosen [...] He urged all his subjects to follow his example, but without forcing anyone. To this new Christian Empire, which was to last a thousand years, he decided to give a new capital. Inspired by a divine sign

history. Troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire had invaded and occupied the Byzantine Empire by 1453. For the next hundred years, the Turks expanded their empire westward. In 1571, three Catholic powers

Council of Mainz (Germany) instituted the feast of the Assumption in the whole Frankish Empire. Charlemagne's empire marked the end of feudalism and the beginning of the unification of Europe, which was

2:35) and his empire "will be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth" (Zech 9:10; cf. Mt 21:5). He will lead nations "with an iron scepter" (Ps 2:1-9). "His empire shall stretch from

the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The Battle of Vienna was won by the combined forces of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the latter