reestablish the orthodoxy of Marian devotion. The action of this missionary was so effective that the faithful placed their lives and their deaths under the maternal protection of Mary. However, the Franciscan

nine-year old girl, revealed to her where to search for the icon that had been hidden under ashes by the faithful during the historic Tartar invasion. Nobody believed the child, who began digging in the ashes,

profaned, started coming back. And the Lord, through Our Lady, answered the trusting prayers of the faithful encouraged by their pastor. The Virgin showed her goodness by giving many miracles. People came

Virgin Mary, Refuge of sinners, he solemnly dedicated himself to Jesus, and swore that he would be faithful to God for ever. So as to reassure him about the validity of his conversion, Mary appeared to him

Paul II, the episcopal pronouncement must be validated by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith before being made public. The Dictionary lists approximately one thousand apparitions, and comes with

soul mate, sweet gift of the Lord, Greeted with joy and in song so adored Amidst God's people, in faith in accord. Come, Bride Sabbath; come, crown of the days. Come, my Beloved. Let us welcome Sabbath

1:9) he asserts the concrete possibility for man to cooperate with God. The collaboration of the faithful, which evidently doesn't make them equal to God in any way, is manifest in the people who preach

of a nearby hill and lie down on a dolmen (a Neolithic stone structure) as she prayed. Through her faith and Mary’s intercession, the woman was healed. Saint Scutarius, the bishop of Le Puy, built the first

of persecution In the fifteenth century Muslim Turks invaded the country, opposing the Christian faith. Gjergi Kastriot Skanderbeg, the national hero of the Albanians, prayed to Our Lady of Scutari for

the statue of Our Sweet Mother was placed on a throne in front of the pulpit at St John's, and the faithful (led by their fearless bishop Michael Ophovius) came daily to pray for deliverance. On September