and Rosario were very positive from the outset. The prelate described Rosario as "a sound, balanced, and composed boy, who doesn't like to draw attention to himself". As the weeks went by, Rosario's parents [...] time. This time, Rosario heard these words: "Today, the moment has come to tell you who I am. I am Mary, the Mother of God, the Immaculate Conception." On Sunday May 11, 1986, Rosario saw the Virgin Mary [...] the claim by Rosario that the Blessed Mother spread her hands as at Fatima and the ground opened up, revealing a vision of hell. Another is that while the apparitions ceased in 1988, Rosario was promised

over the Eucharistic Celebration held at Milagres Church. Thereafter the Eucharistic Procession to Rosario Cathedral took place in which thousands of faithful of Mangalore Diocese publicly adored. Rev Fr [...] address said that this year is declared as the year of Rosary with two specific motives. Firstly, that Rosario Cathedral, the oldest church in the Mangalore Diocese has completed 450 years of it's existence.

August 18 - Our Lady of Rejoicing (France) A recent Marian apparition in Sicily (II) On May 4, 1986, Rosario Toscano, born in 1971, was sick and in bed at home in Catania, Sicily, when he saw a great light [...] from within", appeared at the site of the apparitions, at the precise time when Mary appeared to Rosario. This unusual cloud was witnessed by hundreds of people. Archbishop Bommarito of Catania said: "I [...] when Our Lady appeared to the young Toscano." On March 25, 1999, at the time of the war in Kosovo, Rosario had his 33rd apparition: he miraculously found himself on top of a mountain, looking down on the

yet to hold up the supreme trophy, will make a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine! From his hometown of Rosario, he intends to walk to the city of San Nicolas de los Arroyos (province of Buenos Aires) to honor

los Buenos Aires," i.e the "City of the most holy Trinity and Port of Mary of the Good Air," and Rosario, the second largest city in Argentina, that takes its name from the Virgin of the Rosary. And there

of the battle in the Doge's Palace, the inscription "Nè potenza e armi nè duci, ma la Madonna del Rosario ci ha aiutato a vincere": "It was not the power nor the weapons nor the leaders, but Our Lady of

Longo. Frequent recitations of the Rosary steered Longo back to the faith. Longo became Brother Rosario, a third order Dominican. On the recommendation of Pope Leo XIII, he married a rich widow named Countess

important Catholic sites in Argentina: the ruins of the Jesuit mission of San Ignacio Miní, the Maria do Rosário Shrine in San Nicolas, the Church of Our Lady of the Miracles in Santa Fe, and other places. It was

patroness of the country, which every year attracts millions of pilgrims. In San Nicolás — a city near Rosario, Messi’s birthplace — is the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás, which has a history