– The seven founding saints of the Servants of Mary – Father Maximilian Kolbe is arrested by the Nazis (1941) Haiti places itself under Mary’s protection This year, the feast of the Immaculate Conception

American army, the Nazi SS troops hid in the convent of Altoetting after shooting the eldest monk. The Americans ordered them to turn on the electric lights or they would bomb the place. The Nazis refused, but

written in his own blood placed under the statue. It is said that during the Second World War, the Nazi SS troops, seeing the American army coming, entrenched themselves in the convent of Alttöting after [...] The Americans warned that they would bomb the place if the electric light was not turned on; the Nazis refused, but a brave pilgrim managed to turn on the light, paying with his life for this courageous

shortly after the end of World War II, with the horrible track record of Auschwitz and the many other Nazi camps where the human body had been so severely demeaned and desacralized. “The dogma of the Assumption

(d. 1919) "I have a rosary for you!" One day in 1942, prisoners were walking in a line inside the Nazi prison yard in Berlin, Germany. A voice whispered to a German priest, "Father, do you have a rosary

assertive protagonists of the literary scene of Central Europe, which was destroyed by the coming of Nazi barbarism, in Vienna (Austria), where he lived. Like many people of Jewish origin, Werfel too was

it was blessed by Pope Benedict XVI, and to a ceremony in Guernica, Spain to mourn the victims of Nazi air attacks during World War II. "We traveled overseas with the statue, with the idea that we would