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- Jesus
- Mary
- The Church
- The Bible
- The authors of the Gospels were either eyewitnesses or close contacts of those eyewitnesses
- Onomastics support the historical reliability of the Gospels
- The New Testament was not altered
- The New Testament is the best-attested manuscript of Antiquity
- The Gospels were written too early after the facts to be legends
- Archaeological finds confirm the reliability of the New Testament
- The criterion of embarrassment proves that the Gospels tell the truth
- The dissimilarity criterion strengthens the case for the historical reliability of the Gospels
- 84 details in Acts verified by historical and archaeological sources
- The unique prophecies that announced the Messiah
- The time of the coming of the Messiah was accurately prophesied
- The prophet Isaiah's ultra accurate description of the Messiah's sufferings
- Daniel's "Son of Man" is a portrait of Christ
- The Apostles
- The martyrs
- The monks
- Saint Benedict, father of Western monasticism (d. 550)
- Saint Bruno the Carthusian (d.1101): the miracle of a hidden life
- Blessed Angelo Agostini Mazzinghi: the Carmelite with flowers pouring from his mouth (d. 1438)
- Monk Abel of Valaam's accurate prophecies about Russia (d. 1841)
- The more than 33,000 miracles of Saint Charbel Maklouf (d. 1898)
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (d. 1968): How God worked wonders through "a poor brother who prays"
- The saints
- Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary (19 BC)
- Saint Nazarius, apostle and martyr (d. 68 or 70)
- Ignatius of Antioch: successor of the apostles and witness to the Gospel (d. 117)
- Saint Lupus, the bishop who saved his city from the Huns (d. 623)
- Saint Dominic of Guzman (d.1221): an athlete of the faith
- Saint Francis, the poor man of Assisi (d. 1226)
- Saint Anthony of Padua: "everyone’s saint"
- Saint Simon Stock receives the scapular of Mount Carmel from the hands of the Virgin Mary
- The unusual boat of Saint Basil of Ryazan
- The extraordinary conversion of Michelina of Pesaro
- Saint Rita of Cascia: hoping against all hope
- Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria, physician of bodies and souls (d. 1539)
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola (d. 1556): "For the greater glory of God"
- Saint John Vianney (d. 1859): the global fame of a humble village priest
- Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux (d. 1894 and 1877)
- Saint Faustina, apostle of the Divine Mercy (d. 1938)
- Brother Marcel Van (d.19659): a "star has risen in the East"
- Doctors
- The mystics
- Visionaries
- María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain
- Sister Benigna Consolata: the "Little Secretary of Merciful Love" (d. 1916)
- The 700 extraordinary visions of the Gospel received by Maria Valtorta (d. 1961)
- The amazing geological accuracy of Maria Valtorta's writings (d. 1961)
- Maria Valtorta's astronomic observations consistent with her dating system
- Discovery of an ancient princely house in Jerusalem, previously revealed to a mystic (d. 1961)
- The popes
- The great witnesses of the faith
- Christian civilisation
- The depth of Christian spirituality
- Christ's interventions in history
- Marian apparitions and interventions
- The Life-giving Font of Constantinople
- Cotignac: the first apparitions of the Modern Era (1519)
- The Virgin Mary delivers besieged Christians in Cusco, Peru
- The victory of Lepanto and the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (1571)
- Our Lady of Nazareth in Plancoët, Brittany (1644)
- Saint Joseph’s apparitions in Cotignac, France (1660)
- The Holy Name of Mary and the major victory of Vienna (1683)
- Heaven and earth meet in Colombia: the Las Lajas shrine (1754)
- At La Salette, Mary wept in front of the shepherds (1846)
- Our Lady of Champion, Wisconsin: the first and only approved apparition of Mary in the US (1859)
- Gietrzwald apparitions: heavenly help to a persecuted minority
- The silent apparition of Knock Mhuire in Ireland (1879)
- Fontanelle-Montichiari apparitions of Our Lady "Rosa Mystica" (1947)
- Zeitoun apparitions
- Maria Esperanza Bianchini and Mary, Mary, Reconciler of Peoples and Nations (1976)
- Luz Amparo and the El Escorial apparitions
- The extraordinary apparitions of Medjugorje and their worldwide impact
- The Virgin Mary heals a teenager, then appears to him dozens of times (1986)
- Angels and their manifestations
- Exorcisms in the name of Christ
- A wave of charity unique in the world
- Saint Camillus de Lellis, reformer of hospital care (c. 1560)
- Saint Vincent de Paul (d. 1660), apostle of charity
- Frédéric Ozanam, inventor of the Church's social doctrine (d. 1853)
- Pier Giorgio Frassati (d.1925): heroic charity
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (d. 1997): an unshakeable faith
- Heidi Baker: Bringing God's love to the poor and forgotten of the world
- Amazing miracles
- Miraculous cures
- The royal touch: the divine thaumaturgic gift granted to French and English monarchs (11th-19th centuries)
- With 7,500 cases of unexplained cures, Lourdes is unique in the world (1858-today)
- Mariam, the "little thing of Jesus": a saint from East to West (d.1878)
- The miraculous cure of Blessed Maria Giuseppina Catanea
- Manouchak, operated on by Saint Charbel (2016)
- How Maya was cured from cancer at Saint Charbel's tomb (2018)
- Preserved bodies of the saints
- Bilocations
- Inedias
- Levitations
- Lacrimations and miraculous images
- Stigmates
- Eucharistic miracles
- Relics
- Jews discover the Messiah
- Max Jacob: a liberal gay Jewish artist converts to Catholicism (1909)
- Edith Stein - Saint Benedicta of the Cross: "A daughter of Israel who, during the Nazi persecutions, remained united with faith and love to the Crucified Lord, Jesus Christ, as a Catholic, and to her people as a Jew"
- Patrick Elcabache: a Jew discovers the Messiah after his mother is miraculously cured in the name of Jesus
- Cardinal Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (d. 2007): Chosen by God
- Muslim conversions
- Buddhist conversions
- Atheist conversions
- Testimonies of encounters with Christ
- Providential stories
- The superhuman intuition of Saint Pachomius the Great
- Joan of Arc: "the most beautiful story in the world"
- John of Capistrano saves the Church and Europe (1456)
- How Korea evangelized itself (18th century)
- The prophetic poem about John Paul II (1840)
- Thérèse of Lisieux saved countless soldiers during the Great War
- In 1947, a rosary crusade liberated Austria from the Soviets (1946-1955)
- The discovery of the tomb of Saint Peter in Rome (1949)
- A protective hand saved John Paul II and led to happy consequences (1981)
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- Jesus
- Mary
- The Church
- The Bible
- The authors of the Gospels were either eyewitnesses or close contacts of those eyewitnesses
- Onomastics support the historical reliability of the Gospels
- The New Testament was not altered
- The New Testament is the best-attested manuscript of Antiquity
- The Gospels were written too early after the facts to be legends
- Archaeological finds confirm the reliability of the New Testament
- The criterion of embarrassment proves that the Gospels tell the truth
- The dissimilarity criterion strengthens the case for the historical reliability of the Gospels
- 84 details in Acts verified by historical and archaeological sources
- The unique prophecies that announced the Messiah
- The time of the coming of the Messiah was accurately prophesied
- The prophet Isaiah's ultra accurate description of the Messiah's sufferings
- Daniel's "Son of Man" is a portrait of Christ
- The Apostles
- The martyrs
- The monks
- Saint Benedict, father of Western monasticism (d. 550)
- Saint Bruno the Carthusian (d.1101): the miracle of a hidden life
- Blessed Angelo Agostini Mazzinghi: the Carmelite with flowers pouring from his mouth (d. 1438)
- Monk Abel of Valaam's accurate prophecies about Russia (d. 1841)
- The more than 33,000 miracles of Saint Charbel Maklouf (d. 1898)
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (d. 1968): How God worked wonders through "a poor brother who prays"
- The saints
- Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary (19 BC)
- Saint Nazarius, apostle and martyr (d. 68 or 70)
- Ignatius of Antioch: successor of the apostles and witness to the Gospel (d. 117)
- Saint Lupus, the bishop who saved his city from the Huns (d. 623)
- Saint Dominic of Guzman (d.1221): an athlete of the faith
- Saint Francis, the poor man of Assisi (d. 1226)
- Saint Anthony of Padua: "everyone’s saint"
- Saint Simon Stock receives the scapular of Mount Carmel from the hands of the Virgin Mary
- The unusual boat of Saint Basil of Ryazan
- The extraordinary conversion of Michelina of Pesaro
- Saint Rita of Cascia: hoping against all hope
- Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria, physician of bodies and souls (d. 1539)
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola (d. 1556): "For the greater glory of God"
- Saint John Vianney (d. 1859): the global fame of a humble village priest
- Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux (d. 1894 and 1877)
- Saint Faustina, apostle of the Divine Mercy (d. 1938)
- Brother Marcel Van (d.19659): a "star has risen in the East"
- Doctors
- The mystics
- Visionaries
- María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain
- Sister Benigna Consolata: the "Little Secretary of Merciful Love" (d. 1916)
- The 700 extraordinary visions of the Gospel received by Maria Valtorta (d. 1961)
- The amazing geological accuracy of Maria Valtorta's writings (d. 1961)
- Maria Valtorta's astronomic observations consistent with her dating system
- Discovery of an ancient princely house in Jerusalem, previously revealed to a mystic (d. 1961)
- The popes
- The great witnesses of the faith
- Christian civilisation
- The depth of Christian spirituality
- Christ's interventions in history
- Marian apparitions and interventions
- The Life-giving Font of Constantinople
- Cotignac: the first apparitions of the Modern Era (1519)
- The Virgin Mary delivers besieged Christians in Cusco, Peru
- The victory of Lepanto and the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (1571)
- Our Lady of Nazareth in Plancoët, Brittany (1644)
- Saint Joseph’s apparitions in Cotignac, France (1660)
- The Holy Name of Mary and the major victory of Vienna (1683)
- Heaven and earth meet in Colombia: the Las Lajas shrine (1754)
- At La Salette, Mary wept in front of the shepherds (1846)
- Our Lady of Champion, Wisconsin: the first and only approved apparition of Mary in the US (1859)
- Gietrzwald apparitions: heavenly help to a persecuted minority
- The silent apparition of Knock Mhuire in Ireland (1879)
- Fontanelle-Montichiari apparitions of Our Lady "Rosa Mystica" (1947)
- Zeitoun apparitions
- Maria Esperanza Bianchini and Mary, Mary, Reconciler of Peoples and Nations (1976)
- Luz Amparo and the El Escorial apparitions
- The extraordinary apparitions of Medjugorje and their worldwide impact
- The Virgin Mary heals a teenager, then appears to him dozens of times (1986)
- Angels and their manifestations
- Exorcisms in the name of Christ
- A wave of charity unique in the world
- Saint Camillus de Lellis, reformer of hospital care (c. 1560)
- Saint Vincent de Paul (d. 1660), apostle of charity
- Frédéric Ozanam, inventor of the Church's social doctrine (d. 1853)
- Pier Giorgio Frassati (d.1925): heroic charity
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (d. 1997): an unshakeable faith
- Heidi Baker: Bringing God's love to the poor and forgotten of the world
- Amazing miracles
- Miraculous cures
- The royal touch: the divine thaumaturgic gift granted to French and English monarchs (11th-19th centuries)
- With 7,500 cases of unexplained cures, Lourdes is unique in the world (1858-today)
- Mariam, the "little thing of Jesus": a saint from East to West (d.1878)
- The miraculous cure of Blessed Maria Giuseppina Catanea
- Manouchak, operated on by Saint Charbel (2016)
- How Maya was cured from cancer at Saint Charbel's tomb (2018)
- Preserved bodies of the saints
- Bilocations
- Inedias
- Levitations
- Lacrimations and miraculous images
- Stigmates
- Eucharistic miracles
- Relics
- Jews discover the Messiah
- Max Jacob: a liberal gay Jewish artist converts to Catholicism (1909)
- Edith Stein - Saint Benedicta of the Cross: "A daughter of Israel who, during the Nazi persecutions, remained united with faith and love to the Crucified Lord, Jesus Christ, as a Catholic, and to her people as a Jew"
- Patrick Elcabache: a Jew discovers the Messiah after his mother is miraculously cured in the name of Jesus
- Cardinal Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (d. 2007): Chosen by God
- Muslim conversions
- Buddhist conversions
- Atheist conversions
- Testimonies of encounters with Christ
- Providential stories
- The superhuman intuition of Saint Pachomius the Great
- Joan of Arc: "the most beautiful story in the world"
- John of Capistrano saves the Church and Europe (1456)
- How Korea evangelized itself (18th century)
- The prophetic poem about John Paul II (1840)
- Thérèse of Lisieux saved countless soldiers during the Great War
- In 1947, a rosary crusade liberated Austria from the Soviets (1946-1955)
- The discovery of the tomb of Saint Peter in Rome (1949)
- A protective hand saved John Paul II and led to happy consequences (1981)
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Mary, the most loved woman in the world
The Virgin Mary is without doubt the most beloved woman in the world.
From one end of the Earth to the other, all Christians venerate her as the Mother of God, who is loved far beyond the borders of the Church, and her glory fills the planet like no other creature.
Countless cathedrals, churches, chapels, sanctuaries and places of devotion have been dedicated to her.
Multitudes of men and women, congregations and monasteries, are dedicated to him.
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