September 12 – Holy Name of Mary (following the liberation of Vienna from the Turks in 1683) The Holy Name of Mary, a powerful weapon against terrorism! Saint John Paul II asked Catholics to pray to the [...] that her Nativity had just been celebrated and that on September 12th the Church celebrates the Holy Name of Mary. On Saturday, September 11, 2004, he addressed this message to the bishops of the United States:

Benedictine monk (d. 1186) Each flower was miraculously imprinted with one of the letters of the name "Marie" On November 30, 1186, Saint Andrew's feast, the monks of Déols, a small town in France, were [...] Each flower had, imprinted in its small chalice-shaped corolla of petals, a letter of the Virgin's name in French, "M-A-R-I-E." When Archbishop Henri de Sully came to admire the wonder, he decided to detach

(France, 1130) appears to Saint Bernard (d. 1153) The Name of Mary (I) "And the virgin's name was Mary" (Lk 1:27). Let us also say a few words about this name, which means "star of the sea" and is most suitably

January 30-Our Lady of the rose (Lucca, Italy) The Name of Mary (II) If the winds of temptations surge, if you run aground on the shoals of troubles, look to this star, call upon Mary! If you are tossed [...] despair, think of Mary! In dangers, in straits, in perplexity, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let her name be always in your mouth and in your heart, and, if you would ask for and obtain help of her prayers [...] reach your goal. Thus you will experience personally how rightly it was spoken: "And the virgin's name was Mary."

August 30 - Our Lady of Carquere (Portugal) My Name is Lady Mary (II) Finally, one morning at the end of September, the shepherdess, who had left her sheep and goats to graze on a river bank, saw Lady

August 31 - Our Lady of the Founders (Constantinople) My Name is Lady Mary (III) In September 1665, an investigation into the apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father

attachment to things and animals. On August 29, Benoite asked the visitor what her name was, and heard this response, “My name is Lady Mary, Jesus’ Mother.” The Virgin also told her that the apparitions would [...] August 29 - End of the Apparitions in Laus, recognized in 1665 (Southern Alps, France) My Name is Lady Mary (I) One day in May 1664, seventeen-year old Benoite Rencurel was tending sheep in a valley surrounded

July 8 - Our Lady of Kazan (Russia) The Christian name of each soul is "Mary" Saint Augustine (354-430) said that Mary first conceived the Word in her heart through faith, before she conceived Him in her [...] as the messenger of the Father. This is why Saint Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) gave the faithful the name of Mary at their baptism. He knew that Jesus is born in each Christian soul by faith, following the [...] all… When this soul begins to convert to Christ, it is called Mary: that is to say, it receives the name of the one who gave birth to Christ. It has become a soul that generates Christ in a spiritual way

May 8 – Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 1875) This name is dearer to me than all others For 13 months, Fortuna Agrelli, the daughter of Commander Agrelli from Naples, had been suffering from dreadful [...] she began saying Rosary novenas, and on March 3, 1884, the Virgin Mary appeared to her under the name of Our Lady of Pompeii. She was sitting on a throne, with the baby Jesus on her lap and holding a [...] pleasing to Me, ‘Queen of the Holy Rosary,’ I can no longer refuse the favor you petition; for this name is most precious and dear to Me. Make three novenas, and you shall obtain all." A month later, during

‘Mary,’ he calls her “full of grace,” and thus reveals the new name that God has given her and which is more becoming to her than the name given to her by her parents. We too call her in this way, with [...] (Mexico, 1531) – Saint Juan Diego, patron of the Indigenous people (d. 1548) “Full of grace” is the new name that God gave Mary Today let us contemplate the beauty of Mary Immaculate. The Gospel, which recounts