the Chapel of the Archangels St Michael and St Raphael, in an attitude of deep meditation. (This chapel is dedicated to guardian angels and a small painting there represents St Raphael leading Tobias. Tobias [...] worked and prayed for their conversion. Father Mary Alphonse died in 1884 at Ein Karem, John the Baptist’s birthplace near Jerusalem. ___________ [1] Mary Theodore de Bussieres gave Ratisbonne a Miraculous [...] morning and evening Ratisbonne must recite The Memorare. Taken from The Conversion of Mary Alphonse Ratisbonne, by Mary Theodore de Bussieres (Paris, A. Bray, 1959).
shops, in Lindau near Lake Constance. One day the Gestapo arrived and ordered her to replace the painting of the Virgin by that of the Führer. She was ordered to salute him in the Nazi fashion: " Heil Hitler" [...] blessed by Father Basch, pastor of their parish, on October 11, 1936, feast day of the Maternity of Mary. The following month, the statue "smiled" at her. She received this prayer in a message: "Our Beloved [...] sorrowful mystery of the rosary in front of the Lourdes grotto, Antonie heard "angelic choirs" singing: "O Mary! Immaculate, conceived without sin, Beloved Lady of Victory, pray for us." On February 22, 1938, around
influenced by the spirituality of the Name of Jesus , taught by St Bernardine of Siena and spread in Europe by the Franciscans. The Name of Mary was always associated with the Name of Jesus and thus, against [...] the stake. Unlike the holy theologians who had illuminated the University of Paris, such as St Bonaventure, St Thomas Aquinas and Bl. Duns Scotus, of whom I have spoken in several Catecheses, these judges [...] world’s salvation. The Church has brought them together as Patronesses of France, after the Virgin Mary. St Thérèse expressed her desire to die, like Joan, with the Name of Jesus on her lips ( Manoscritto
therefore, Mary goes to the house of her kinswoman. When Mary enters, Elizabeth replies to her greeting and feels the child leap in her womb, and being " filled with the Holy Spirit " she greets Mary with a [...] Abraham's faith marks beginning of the Old Covenant, Mary's faith inaugurates the New Covenant Mary's faith can also be compared to that of Abraham, whom St. Paul calls "our father in faith" (cf. Rom 4: 12) [...] both to Mary and also to Joseph, since Joseph took the place of his father in people's eyes; for this reason, the Son of Mary was regarded by the people as "the carpenter's son" (Mt 13: 55). Mary bears in
