St. John Damascene, a devout Christian, was head chancellor to the Caliph of Damascus in 726 when the Byzantine Emperor Leo issued his first iconoclastic…
The image was very revered and carried the strange name “of the Standard” because the standards of weights and measures were kept close by. In…
During a heat wave and drought, on July 23, 1496, Quinto Foglia and his two little boys were walking from their home in Vall’Alta to…
July 22, 1796: Beginning of the prodigious movement of the eyes of Our Lady Advocate. The beautiful image of the Virgin in prayer, the work…
22 Luglio 1796: Inizio del prodigioso movimento degli occhi della Madonna Avvocata Nostra. La bellissima immagine della Vergine in preghiera, opera del pittore Giacomo Triga, che…
“The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Civita in the territory of Itri, of the Archdiocese of Gaeta, is the oldest Marian temple in the world…
During the siege of Turin, by the French troops, in 1706, Victor Amadeus II vowed to Mary to erect on the hill of Superga a…
Durante l’assedio di Torino, da parte delle truppe francesi, nel 1706, Vittorio Amedeo II fece voto a Maria di erigere sul colle di Superga un…
The Franciscan friars who accompanied the Conquest to Peru hung an image of the Immaculate Conception over the door of their first church in Lima.…