and took the name Sister Mary of the Eucharist. The Saône side of the Croix-Rousse at the beginning of the 20th century / © CC0/wikimedia Reasons to believe: During the first apparition, the Virgin Mary [...] because of her illness. At the beginning of January 1883, after the end of the series of apparitions, the doctors confirmed that she had recovered. The Virgin had said to her: " You are suffering a lot, [...] used by the Virgin were unknown to her (for example " the arm of my Son "). The spiritual fruits of these apparitions were significant: Anne-Marie joind the community of the Sisters of St Joseph at S
and instruments at the service of the Gospel, in perfect coherence with the teaching of the Church. Padre Pio's view of the experiences he had was entirely consistent with that of the Church. In his eyes [...] Pietrelcina. The visit surprised the young Capuchin, as the priest was not in the habit of coming to him unannounced. Immediately, the visitor tried to persuade him to give up the religious life , on the pretext [...] Another affair soon cast a shadow over the saint's life. Hundreds of thousands of faithful sent donations to the monastery. Of course, because of his vow of poverty, the saint did not have access to this money
with a swarm of bees. To everyone's amazement, the bees found their way into the baby's mouth without stinging her. The miracle of the vine: at the command of the Mother Superior, Rita watered a dead, withered [...] afterwards, the plague claimed them. She then presented herself at the Augustinian monastery in Cascia, but the abbess sent her away because some of the nuns belonged to the family of the enemy clan. Undaunted [...] troubled times. The village of Roccaporena, though situated at an elevation of 700 meters, was not immune to the troubles ravaging Europe. The plague claimed thousands of victims and, since 1378, the Church had
in the history of the Church. She is the postulator of a cause for beatification, a journalist for a number of Catholic media, and the author of more than forty books, most of them on the topic of holiness [...] Luigi had died the day before... Only one of them, John Bosco, knew that the dead man had just kept the promise they had made to each other the previous summer - a promise that the first of them to die would [...] inspired by the life of a saint they had both just read, Comollo exclaimed: " It would be beautiful if the first of us to die came back from the beyond to give news to the other!" At the time, life expectancy
light…from the faithful gathered there, to the nuns, to the altar…and came to rest above the second candle burning to the left of the Cross ( unaware that I was standing in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament) [...] question of the existence of God was never even brought up". At the age of 20, on July 8, 1935, he entered the chapel of the Daughters of Adoration in Paris. Before the Blessed Sacrament, he experienced an encounter [...] 1935, the moment he entered the chapel of the Daughters of Adoration in Paris. The young journalist, who had just graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (The School of Decorative
to those who do not want to leave their sins behind." The next moment, the Lady had vanished, leaving the materiality of the statue at the top of the tower to take her place once again. Catherine's difficult [...] her lifetime. The periodicity of the stigmata afflicting Catherine in 1640, and their clinical course, leave no doubt as to their extra-natural origin. The opening of the wounds followed the Church's liturgical [...] source of the mystical phenomena. This was the beginning of a spiritual accompaniment that was to last until her death, on the occasion of a local pilgrimage to Guerlédan (Côtes-d'Armor). In the meantime, more
here he comes, the Slavonic pope, the brother of the peoples!” "Behold, the Slavic pope is coming, a brother of the people. Behold, he already pours the world’s balm on our breasts. And the angel-choir sweeps [...] that the first non-Italian pope in centuries is Slav and comes from Poland. The words of the poem also describe the courage and special drive of Pope John Paul The Great, who faced adversity, the world [...] excellent summary of the extraordinary action and destiny of Pope Saint John Paul II. Summary: The astonishing "prophetic poem", written by Juliusz Słowacki, one of the greatest Polish poets of the 19th century
already almost 200,000 Christians at the end of the 17th century. However, the Vietnamese had not heard of Jesus until the 16th century, and from then on, persecution of Christians was swift, violent, and [...] then increased in the following century with the arrival of Dominican, Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries. It was a French priest of the Society of Jesus, Alexandre de Rhodes, who built the first church in [...] stopped the mass martyrdom of evangelists and their converts . Among the victims were eight bishops, a large number of priests and a huge number of lay Christians of both sexes, from all walks of life and
both sides the view extends southwards towards the southern hills, and to the north Bezeta hides a large part of the panorama. But beyond the valley of the Gihôn, the bald, yellowish head of Golgotha emerges [...] excavated the area not far from the western wall of the Temple, in the Jewish quarter of the Old City. There they discovered the remains of a " palatial residence " and numerous objects, dating from the time [...] description of the building and its location (cf. visions 372 and 375 received in 1946). " The Palace of Lazarus is certainly on one of the many hills that make the streets of Jerusalem a succession of ascents
solemn profession in the same Lebanese Maronite order and was canonised by the Church to highlight the mystery of love given and accepted for the glory of God and the salvation of the world. But it is above [...] continued to spread until it filled the bottom of the coffin. The body was intact, the muscles supple, and the face covered by a veil that let it show through like the Shroud of Turin. It was this unique moment [...] offered the world to God. Like Saint Paul, he completed in his flesh what was lacking in the sufferings of Christ. He contemplated the crucified and realised, as they say in the East, that the cross was his