Liguria, in northern Italy), blessed Antonio Botta claimed to have "seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary," standing on a rock overhanging a mountain stream. Our Lady was dressed in white, her gaze looking [...] processions to this sacred shrine have never ceased. Word spread about the apparitions of the Virgin Mary. In 1665, the bishop of the diocese called for a feast day on March 18th in her honor. Pope Pius VII [...] Lady of Mercy. Pius VII kept his promise and on May 10, 1815, he crowned the statue of the Virgin Mary himself. ________________________ See: https://www.santuariosavona.eu/
appearances of the Virgin Mary in Africa, no one can keep track of them all anymore! Remember Our Lady of Kibeho : just before the atrocious Rwandan genocide, the Virgin Mary appeared in Kibeho, Rwanda [...] John Paul II calls Africa “continent of Hope”! The Christian faith and the devotion to the Virgin Mary in Africa have gained a new energy, especially since the middle of the 20 th century, and since the [...] Algiers, and where people, Christians and Muslims alike, come from far and wide to pray to the Virgin Mary…
Holy Family lived was only a modest rural village - " Can something good come out of Nazareth? " – Mary's horizon soon extended beyond Nazareth. A few kilometers away was Sephoris, the Roman city of Galilee [...] the capital of Galilee, was only a few miles from Nazareth. Joseph probably helped rebuild the city. Mary would visit its market from time to time. There Jesus came into contact with a Roman city, with its [...] looking for him after three days, Jesus answered that he must be tending to his Father’s business. Mary did not understand, but kept all this in her heart. From Cana in Galilee, to the Calvary of Jerusalem
the presence of the Virgin Mary who brings us Jesus is exactly the same as living the Gospel, particularly the moment of the Visitation (Lk 1: 39-44, 56). At the time of Mary's visit to Elizabeth, John [...] and interreligious. Indeed, Catholics and Protestants celebrate together special days in honor of Mary. On Epiphany day, the non-believers can enter the church, where they often prostrate and act like
walk to heaven, and thus our guide to be." Mary and Joseph kept quiet about the extraordinary virginal conception of their Divine Son, born of the Virgin Mary. The ritual of engagement and marriage had [...] other families of Nazareth. St Therese of Lisieux wrote on this subject, in her magnificent poem to Mary (1): "I know, indeed, at Nazareth, O Virgin rich in graces! As the lowly live, so thou didst live [...] times, although St. Therese saw something grand in the lowliness! "Then later still, O Joseph! and O Mary! I behold you Rejected in little Bethlehem by all the dwellers there; From door to door you vainly
population. Their attachment to Mary is manifest, especially during the month of the Rosary. In 1953, the diocese of Lomé organized a Family Rosary, with a statue of Mary going from house to house for short [...] greeted them kindly, and granted them a piece of land. There the missionaries attached an image of Mary, Our Lady of Good Counsel, to a baobab tree. A few days later, they found the image thrown on the
Spain has revered the Blessed Virgin Mary since the very origins of Christianity, thanks to the Apostle Saint James who was the first evangelizer of that country. According to early Christian tradition [...] Pillar, so dear to the Spaniards. Archeologists have also found in Merida a certain "Church of Saint Mary" dating from the 2nd century - anterior to the persecution of Decius (200-251). Following this wave [...] the Shrine of Our Lady of the Pillar. At the end of the 5th century Spanish liturgy began to exalt Mary as the New Eve, the Mother of God and our Mother, the Mediatrix of Graces, risen to heaven, an image
February 11 (Our Lady of Lourdes), April 30 (beginning of the Month of Mary), May 13 (Our Lady of Fatima), May 31 (end of the Month of Mary), August 15 (Assumption) Carillon : Sundays and feast days 4 pm-6 [...] History In the 12th century, near Cagnac les Mines (5 km from Albi), the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to some shepherds, in the middle of a bush. A statue of the Madonna and Child was subsequently [...] meaning of his name: Jesus means "God is salvation, God saves." Prayer to Our Lady of the Drèche Holy Mary, With the whole Church, we invoke you as Salvation of Christians, Refuge of Sinners, Consolation of
The main feast days at the shrine are: - The feast of the Nativity of Mary, on September 8th - The feast of the Assumption of Mary, on August 15th (the celebrations begin on the afternoon of August 14th [...] in a small village of Hungary, bordering Ukraine. The image venerated there is an ancient icon of Mary, of the type "Hodigitria" ("Who shows the Way"). An inscription reads: "I, a servant of God, had this [...] (Turkish Muslims) from 1541 to 1686. In 1693, Emperor Leopold I renewed the national act of trust to Mary. Three years later, in 1696, the miracle of tears took place on the icon "Hodigitria" in Máriapócs;
Medal (apparition of the rue du Bac – 1830), “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you,” even though the Immaculate Conception of Mary was still being debated within the Church. After [...] the proclamation of the dogma While a large part of society didn’t care anymore about redemption, Mary appeared in Paris, at the rue du Bac, her feet on the infernal snake. This happened on the afternoon [...] march 25, 1858, day of the celebration of the Annunciation, demonstrates the scope of that dogma: Mary was conceived immaculate so she could be granted the dignity and the task of becoming the Mother of
