Marian Minutes

October 1st is the memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux, a saint adored today by many of the faithful.  One Marian image commonly associated with St. Therese

On March 25th the Church celebrates the Annunciation of the Lord when the Angel Gabriel appeared to the young virgin and asked for her participation

Heavenly objects have been used metaphorically for centuries to describe our Christian Faith, and examinations of the sky are prevalent throughout Scripture.  The magi sought

Each new year begins with a Holy Day of Obligation, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, to acknowledge and celebrate the significance of the

Near the city of Chartres, France every year a procession takes place in thanksgiving to our Lady for having delivered the city from total destruction

The title of Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom comes from the Latin “sedes sapientiae” and is used in the Litany of Loreto. Since the eighth century

On February 11, 1858, Our Lady appeared to a young peasant girl named Bernadette in a pig grotto named Massabielle.  She appeared in a rock outcropping

The devotion to Our Lady of “Quick Help” has its earliest roots in France with Ursuline sisters who wanted to transfer to an American convent in

Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, was born to a wealthy though non-practicing Jewish family who hated and mocked the Catholic faith after his brother converted and entered the

This apparition consists of a happy meeting of two saints and a 17 year-old shepherdess Benoite (Benedicta) Rencurel. This took place in a little village

In 1531, the Mexican peasant Juan Diego saw a vision of Our Lady who asked him to build a shrine in that spot so that

Pope Benedict XVI teaches us the relevance of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception and encourages us to receive comfort from and follow the example

On September 19, 1846 the Blessed Mother appeared to two shepherd children in La Salette, France. The children could not identify the “beautiful lady” who

On August 21, 1879 Our Lady appeared with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist to the parish housekeeper, Mary McLoughlin. Over the course of this

From November 29, 1932 to January 3, 1933, Our Lady appeared to five children in Beauraing, Belgium with her heart golden and resplendent. The Blessed Mother

The history of this feast dates back to the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when a coalition of Christian countries battled the Ottoman Empire at

Our Lady of the Poor or Virgin of the Poor appeared to Mariette Beco in 1933 in Banneux, Belgium. Marriette, the eldest of seven children, and

This week the Church celebrated the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. This feast is dedicated to the spiritual martyrdom of Mary, Mother of God, and

“All of you, who see yourselves amid the tides of the world, tossed by storms and tempests rather than walking on the land, do not

The Church has celebrated Mary’s birth since at least the sixth century, though Scripture does not give an account of Mary’s birth. However, the apocryphal

Nearly fifty years after Fatima’s miracle of the sun, Our Lady appeared to another crowd of believers and nonbelievers in Zeitoun Egypt.  On April 2nd 1968, a