Sure Hope and Consolation for God’s People on their Journey Mary the sign of created hope and solac e to the wandering people of God In the interim just as the Mother of Jesus, glorified in body and soul

up to the twenty-first century have come from Europe. Many Marian doctors have also been European (i.e. St Alphonsus Liguori, St Bernard of Clairvaux and St Louis Grignion de Montfort). Throughout its long

all that he has not come to abolish, but to accomplish the Law and the Prophets ... Accomplish ... i.e. with the price of His Blood on the Cross, this unique baptism, in which by being plunged into death

the 5th century invokes the Virgin Mary and recalls that the martyrs were witnesses "of her womb," i.e the fact that Mary is the virgin mother of the Son of God. The basilica is also called “ Mary at the

and is among the ten largest churches in the world. The church measures a total of 459 ft. long, i.e. longer than St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome or Haggia Sophia in Istanbul. The height of the nave

public cult offered to God), which is fixed according to norms that everyone must follow attentively (e.g. prayers of Holy Mass, sacramental rites, and the Divine Office or Office of the Hours). - Eucharistic

Orthodox, on the other hand, have the first seven Ecumenical Councils up to Nicaea II, in 787 in common (i.e all the councils held before the Great Orthodox Schism of 1054) as well as the treaties and Marian

" is very popular, for instance, by J. S. Bach: the Magnificat in D major (BWM 243) and another in E-flat. Many composers wrote a "Stabat mater": Edgar, Pergolesi, Colonna, Stefani, Clain, Caldara, Gasparini

are named after the Virgin. The whole population is turned toward Mary. The President, Diego Torres e Beaumont, used to recite the little office of Our Lady every Saturday; state representative members

Aristide Serra Excerpt from A. Serra "Bibbia", Nuovo dizionario di mariologia,a cura di .S. di Fiores e S. Meo, ed. San Paolo, Milano 1986