the words of the faithful remnant of Israel, of those who are waiting for the Messiah. Wine in the Bible is a symbol of the joy that God promised to His people, and of the reestablishment of the Covenant [...] comes, a symbol of joy and of superabundant spiritual blessings. Jesus accepts his mission and Mary is the instructor of his first steps. As Solomon's mother had crowned her son on the day of his nuptials [...] 'Everyone serves the good wine first, and then when the people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.' Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee

all the riches of justification and salvation in Christ, so that I no longer am in want of anything, except of faith to believe that this is so. [...] [...] by faith I abound in all good things in Christ [...] Mary's Faith (Luther) Luther spoke of the believer's faith and the faith of Mary: this faith come before works. « Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me, an unworthy [...] affords us an example of the same faith, in that she was purified according to the law of Moses, and like all other women, though she was bound by no such law and had no need of purification. [...] She

This is the origin of the Orthodox feast of the “Protection of the Mother of God” celebrated on October 1st (or October 14th according to the Julian calendar used by the Orthox Churches of Slavonian rite) [...] bishop of Haarlem, signed a decree in which he recognized the supernatural character of the apparitions of The Lady of all Nations, stating that these apparitions help us to understand the signs of the time [...] survival of the universe depended on human sacrifices by the tens of thousands. The apparition of Mary pointed to Christ (she was pregnant and wore a little cross), and re-directed the Aztec intuition of the

is an example of the tolerance, and even support, for a kind of syncretism, since the beginning of the Conquista. Understandably, the cult to the Pachamama reflects a sacral attitude, of man who recognizes [...] pouring a few drops of chicha with the middle finger, or by burying under the foundations of a new house the dried-up fetus of a llama, which can be bought at any Indian market in replacement of the ancient animal [...] Our Lady of Copacabana was crowned as Queen of the nation on August 2, 1925. On November 4, 1968, she was proclaimed patroness of the Bolivian Navy. We find churches dedicated to Our Lady of Copacabana in

The mystery of the divine motherhood and of Mary's co-operation in the work of Redemption has filled believers in every age with an attitude of praise, both for the Saviour and for her who gave birth to [...] influence of the "Proto-Evangelium of James", the feasts of the Nativity, the Conception and the Presentation were also introduced, and notably contributed to highlighting some important aspects of the mystery [...] his Son, born of woman" (Gal 4:4). Marian devotion is based on the wondrous divine decision, as the Apostle Paul recalls, to link forever the Son of God's human identity with a woman, Mary of Nazareth. The

audience with its members on September 9, 2004, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Shrine of Matri Ecclesiae and the creation of an International Schoenstatt Center in Rome: "Schoenstatt's commitment [...] as the primary nucleus of the Church, of culture and of society. In accordance with your Founder's recommendations, you give a privileged place to the Crucifix and to the image of Mary in your homes so [...] chaplain worked together to draw up the statutes of a new Marian Congregation, soon approved by the Bishop of Trier. By 1914, Schoenstatt had become a place of Marian pilgrimage. Twenty students who were sent

under the jurisdiction of the Mother Church of Greece. The Russian Church is currently the largest Church of Byzantine tradition due to the wide span of its provinces and the number of its faithful. It obtained [...] days of the Icons of the Virgin Mary are celebrated in Moscow (23), Saint Petersburg (5, including the feast of Jasna Gora celebrated on the 6th of March) and Kiev (5). Other important centers of Marian [...] obtained the status of an Autocephalous Church in 1448 and the title of Patriarchate in 1589. The number of the faithful is difficult to ascertain because of the events related to atheistic Communism. In

the Eucharist, the supreme sign of the presence of her risen Son among the disciples. At the end of the account of Jesus' first miracle, made possible by the firm faith of the Lord's Mother in her divine [...] involvement at Cana on the occasion of the first miracle: "At the marriage feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought about by her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the Messiah (cf. Jn 2: 1 -11)" [...] jars, destined for the purification of the Jews and the fulfilment of the legal prescriptions (cf. Mk 7:1-15), which becomes the new wine of the wedding feast, a symbol of the definitive union between God

the god of hell and doom. The resurrection of the flesh : finally, they trusted that at the end of the world there would be a resurrection, like that of the scarab god who died and came out of its hole [...] Mary The strut of all the religious thinking and of the moral uprightness of the Egyptian people lays in the story of Osiris and Isis and its highly spiritual content. With the passing of centuries, it [...] out of imitation and hope of salvation, were the only ancient people to practice and respect monogamy and to respect women in the status of equality and love. They lived this way in the midst of polygamous

"Disciples of Jesus" and "Brothers of Mary," the feminine “Institute of Mary Mother of the Church" and the “Congregation of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate." In October 1970, on the occasion of the pilgrimage [...] people would give very high alms, others a fast of 8 days. Christians reached 42% of the population. Years of tyranny and civil war: Mary at the foot of the Uganda Cross The country gained its independence [...] towards a federal union of the four kingdoms of the country. But in January 1971, Idi Amin Dada took power by a coup. His tyrannical regime was accused of the death or disappearance of nearly 300,000 Ugandans