Dong-lu: Our Lady of China. Kwei-Yan: Our Lady of Rejoicing and Mother of Tsao-Shan. Our Lady of the Rosary in front of P'u-t'u, the sacred island of the Buddhist monks and the place of worship of the goddess [...] praises and glories of the Mother of God and men. Zo-sé (Shanghai): National Shrine and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, Mary Help of Christians. Pope Saint John Paul II evoked Our Lady of Sheshan by bringing [...] the harmony of nature, to the beauty of the setting, and to art. Peking: Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (1867). Tien-Tsin: Our Lady of Victory (1869). On the hills of Hung-Kow-tze: Mary of the Portioncula

Virgin of the Candlestick » (Virgen de la Candelaria), also known as the « Virgin of the Tunnel » (Virgen del socavon) since the end of the 16 th century. Tradition tells the story of an apparition of the [...] during the Carnival. The procession is made up of several groups of faithful, who first march toward the church, then enter it. Dancers go in and out of the sanctuary without ever turning their backs to [...] representing Our Lady. Another kind of parade represents devils, led by Lucifer and the « China supay » who is the embodiment of female sensuality. There are also good angels who fight against them, marching

importance of narrowing the gap between the different Christian religions by reaping the fruit of an ecumenical understanding of Mary's Magnificat : "The visit to Elizabeth is sealed by the canticle of the [...] that unites the hearts of Christ's disciples beyond the historical divisions, which we are committed to overcoming in view of full communion. In this ecumenical atmosphere, it is good to remember that in [...] in 1521 Martin Luther devoted a famous commentary to this "holy canticle of the Blessed Mother of God", as he expressed it. In it he says that the hymn 'must be learned well and remembered by all', because

for it represents the nine tenths of the life of the Son of God on earth... Saint Louis De Montfort wrote : "Our good Master stooped to enclose himself in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, a captive but [...] he did not come into the world independently of others in the flower of his manhood, but he came as a frail little child dependent on the care and attention of his Mother. Consumed with the desire to give [...] for the first eight, ten or fifteen years of his life like other children, but for thirty years. He gave more glory to God, his Father, during all those years of submission and dependence than he would have

glory. Granted, the only birth worthy of God was to be born of a virgin and the only childbirth worthy of a virgin was to give birth to God. Thus the Creator of men, who to become man wished to be born [...] her to make a vow of virginity and granting her the privilege of staying humble. Otherwise, how could the angel, thereafter, greet her as "full of grace"; if there was in her any good which did not proceed [...] all men. Likewise He willed her humble, to be born of her meek and humble of heart, since He was coming to give a perfect and salutary example of these two virtues by His life. He thus made it possible for

being an average Catholic to one more devout. Valentina is a Roman Catholic in good standing, who has the full support of her Spiritual director and parish priest, Father Valerian Jenko OFM. She wishes [...] to God’s blessings of peace. Many confirmations attest that lives are changed, hearts touched and people are encouraged to seek Gods grace through this witness. This is an example of the messages: Today [...] Slovenia after experiencing difficult times in her early years. In 1988 two years after the sudden death of her husband, Valentina began to receive visions and messages from our Lord Jesus and Mary our Blessed

scared, due to a feeling of solitude and dereliction, but also because of a vision of "red balls." Nathalie cried. She then saw a great light and heard a sad voice coming out of it: "Child, I am sad; and [...] get the book of the Imitation of Jesus Christ in the corner of the dormitory's small chapel, and read the page she would open randomly. She opened it on a passage saying that the things of this world are [...] Eucharist, "to follow Jesus in the desert," and to remember and meditate on the suffering of the passion of Jesus on Good Friday, when he also was hungry and thirsty. Anathalie had warned the school director

Roman temple of the town became a Christian chapel. The chapel houses the wooden statue of the Black Madonna of Altoetting. Feast Day Our Lady of Altoetting is honored on Ash Wednesday and Good Saturday. [...] Our Lady of Altoetting This ancient shrine in the heart of Bavaria dates from the end of the Carolingian era (10th century) and has never been destroyed. Our Lady of Altoetting is a still a thriving Marian [...] Catholic faith, after the wars of religion. During the terrible period of Nazism , the shrine and its pilgrims were persecuted, but the number of pilgrims coming to Our Lady of Altoetting only doubled. In

for the forces of evil. Again, Kolbe cannot be accused of anti-Semitism for being strongly morally opposed to what they were doing. For having discarded the possibility of the Messiah-hood of Jesus Christ [...] libel of the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion, so did almost the entire non-Jewish world at the time. When Kolbe was in Asia anti-Semitic writings were published in Kolbe's Knight of the Immaculata [...] acting editor of the Knight back in Poland). While head of the friary in Poland Kolbe fed, clothed and sheltered thousands of Jews who had nowhere else to turn—often at the expense of adequate resources

Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him [...] president of the feast.' They did this; the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the president of the feast [...] bridegroom and said, 'Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till now.' This was the first of Jesus' signs: it was at Cana in Galilee