his intimate union with God. The provincial of Valencia eventually welcomed him into the Society of Jesus. Sent to Palma de Mallorca, he remained a porter at the Montesion convent for the rest of his long [...] to be pleasing to Him, I am ready to renounce everything in this world, and myself [...] I go to Jesus and Mary and converse with them; they answer me with sweet suavity and make known to me their holy [...] his First Holy Communion) Alonso was already associated, without his knowing it, to the Society of Jesus from childhood. At the age of twelve, he was sent to study at a Jesuit college. Unfortunately, his

Mary's gentle and maternal presence, in the daily commitment to clothe themselves interiorly with Jesus Christ and to manifest him vividly in themselves for the good of the Church and of all humanity [

evangelizing believers, teaching them that the essential thing is not the "miraculous", but faith in Jesus Christ . Like the rural areas of Western Europe before the 8th century, 13th-century central Russia

1754, Rosa, who had been a deaf-mute since birth, witnessed an apparition of Mary and the Child Jesus while she was with her mother in the canyon formed by the Guaitara River, not far from the town of [...] front of them, on the far wall , they discovered a painted image of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus, holding a rosary and surrounded by two men whose identities neither Maria nor Rosa knew. They hurried

court for cases threatening public order. In the face of threats, Nazarius persisted in confessing Jesus Christ. The prefect, drunk with rage, had him whipped and condemned to exile, threatening to kill [...] of tyrants by his constancy and never gave in to the threats of persecutors, for he had Our Lord Jesus Christ, who fought with him, to support him in the midst of his battles [...] Led into the middle

greater glory of God" was his motto and became the overarching Jesuit principle of the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. Loyola unceasingly sought to find God in all things, spreading the reign [...] people, both religious and laypeople, to find their vocation and their mission in life. The Society of Jesus played an important role in the Counter-Reformation, spreading the Catholic faith to distant lands [...] chivalric romances, his favorite readings, he read two books that were brought to him: The Life of Jesus Christ , by the Carthusian Ludolph of Saxony, and The Golden Legend , by Jacobus de Voragine, a collection

Virgin Mary The Church celebrates the feast of Saints Anne and Joachim, the Virgin Mary's parents and Jesus' grandparents, on July 26. In the Orthodox tradition, Anne and Joachim are known as " God's righteous [...] Joachim is not based on what they did, but on who they are: the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus. After twenty years of marriage, the couple was still unable to conceive. Taking as an example the [...] they were blessed with one. Despite her advanced age, Anne gave birth to Mary, the future mother of Jesus. " Mary had to be the daughter of grace rather than of flesh and blood; she had to come from Heaven

crucified upside down at his own request, as he considered himself unworthy to die in the same way as Jesus. The saint's body was then placed in a tomb resting above the ground, under a small tiled roof, in [...] Peter by John Evangelist Walsh The Fisherman's Tomb by John O'Neill In April 2017, CNN 'S Finding Jesus Faith Fact Forgery show featured the story of St. Peter's bones and tomb in its 5th episode from season

1602-1665 María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain The Venerable Maria of Jesus was Mother Abbess of a Conceptionist convent in Agreda, Spain. Her remarkable management skills enabled [...] her again after the bilocation. Maria was uncomfortable with these supernatural phenomena and asked Jesus to deliver her from them. She was elected abbess in 1627 and was re-elected until her death, except [...] in no way explained the incomprehensible quality and depth of her faith and intuitions. Maria of Jesus never undertook anything without first informing her confessors, to whom she confided totally. When

Evangelist, a direct witness to the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus, attests to the existence of the crown of thorns: " Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. The soldiers braided a crown of thorns