The Activities of the Holy See (1996) noted that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was studying "a phenomenon of very vast significance, that of alleged apparitions [which are] frequently ...

The matchless servant of that plan was the Virgin full of grace: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord: let it be done to me according to your word” (Lk 1:38). Dear pilgrims, let us imitate Mary ...

John brought people to love Christ and the Virgin Mary ... the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has gradually grown more widespread in the Church, particularly since the apparitions at Fatima.

How fitting that the pope should choose the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes for that purpose. Lourdes, a picturesque town in the Pyrenees mountains of southern France, was the site of several ...

MILTON, Mass. – Thousands of believers have flocked to a hospital parking lot in the small New England community in a “holy pilgrimage” to see the image of Virgin Mary. "I see the outline of the ...

The Venerable Bede (673-735), Benedictine monk, historian, and scholar, wrote of the white lily as the emblem of the Blessed Virgin; the white petals symbolized the purity of her body and the golden ...

His daily conversation with the Virgin Mary has begun ... generations will call me blessed.” Indeed they have. Yet clues about her life are elusive. Scholars of Mary must take what they can ...

COMMENTARY: After the Blessed Mother appeared to her in 1858, the French peasant girl sought simple religious life 400 miles ...

And many such things you do.' Reflection on the sculpture The sculpture of Our Lady of Lourdes located in the grotto at ...

It all started in 1916, when the Guardian Angel of Portugal appeared to the three children to prepare them for the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin the following year.Under the title of Our Lady of ...

The duo traveled a total of 1,653 miles to get to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Pasadena, where the supplies would be dropped off for the nearby St. Elizabeth Parish.

The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary stands almost unscathed in front of an Altadena, California, couple’s home, which was completely destroyed by the California wildfires. (Photo: Courtesy of Peter ...