October 24 – Our Lady of La Regla (Cuba) The Blessed Virgin wanted to stay near the source About 2 million people took part in the Cartago Pilgrimage on August 2, 2019, in honor of the patron saint of [...] August 2, 1635, a native girl, Juana Pereira, went to gather wood as she did every day. She was walking near a spring when she was surprised to find a statuette of a woman with a child in her arms on the top [...] check on it the next day, the statue was gone. Juana found it the following day in the exact same spot near the spring. All understood then that the statue was to stay there, in this place called La Puebla
(India, 1599) – Conversion of Saint Paul The Basilica of the Holy Rosary, an important Marian Shrine near Calcutta The Basilica of the Holy Rosary in Bandel, also called Our Lady of the Good Journey, is located
church of Our Lady of Benoîte Vaux (Site of apparitions in France, 1138) “The Virgin Mary is always near patients to fight for them.” A Maltese man fighting to recover from a serious injury has found himself [...] believe in him – four years ago I went through a similar experience, but the Virgin Mary is always near patients to fight for them.” The Ta’ Pinu Basilica, in Għarb, Gozo, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary
the Kneeling Woman (France, 1550) An apparition near Valence, France, commemorated on September 8th The shrine of Our Lady of Fresneau, in Marsanne, near Valence (France), existed in the Middle Ages under
Sasso (Locarno, Switzerland, 1480) - Saint Maximilian Kolbe I smelled the delightful perfume of Mary near me We live in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (Brittany, France). At the age of 17, after not practicing for a [...] Laus Shrine (France), I experienced the grace of perfumes. I smelled the delightful perfume of Mary near me. Then I saw my life pass before my eyes, and everywhere I went I discovered God’s love. While a
Lady of Almudena (Madrid, Spain) - Saint Leo the Great, Pope (d. 461) Two candles were still burning near a painting of Mary 300 years later! A very old tradition holds that when the Apostle St James came [...] Virgin—henceforth called the Almudena . Astonishingly, the people saw that two candles were still burning near the painting 300 years later, which explains the darkness of her face. Since November 9, 1085, the
of Toledo (Spain, 657) What Did Joseph and Mary Do Near the Manger They looked at, contemplated and admired the Christ Child. That is all they did near the manger. They were deep in prayer before the Blessed
February 23 - Our Lady of the Rocks (near Salamanca, Spain) - Saint Polycarp (d. ca. 155), bishop and martyr Jesus, Saint John and His Mother "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's [...] the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son.' Then to the disciple he said, 'This is your
February 3 - Our Lady of Seidaneida (near Damascus, Syria) The Preservation of the Image of Guadalupe is Inexplicable for Science (I) In 1531, a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a poor Indian named Juan
October 14 - Our Lady of Larochette (near Geneva,Switzerland) Mary Comes to Her People (I) It all began in April 1984, when Edmond Fricoteaux, a French lawyer in his mid-fifties, visited Rome for the first [...] he became convinced that God had given him a mission - to set up a giant statue of the Virgin Mary near an important highway not far from Paris. He managed this feat and on October 15, 1988 the statue was [...] bearing one of the 108 different statues and icons of the Blessed Virgin, and all converged on a highway near the Puy-en-Velay, the chosen site for the launch of the pilgrim statues. The Puy is one of the oldest
