Lake Maracaibo, a giant lake in the form of a teardrop suspended from the Gulf of Venezuela in the northwest of the country, was home…
On October 24, 1879, in the Nevers area of central France, people brought a lifeless child to St. Martin’s Church. They set the little corpse…
The ORIGIN of the Image The origin of the devotion among the Passionists is an image of Mary holding the child Jesus who has a…
Begun in 450 by Empress Aelia Pulcheria, the church complex of St. Mary in the Blachernae district of Constantinople was one of the most sacred…
HISTORY of OCTOBER 1917 Some 70,000 people filled the Cova da Iria during the final apparition on October 13, 1917, when Lucia heard the woman…
According to longstanding local tradition, the apostle St. James the Greater (Santiago) was evangelizing Spain with eight followers when, on the night of January 2,…
In 1197, a Sorbonne doctor of theology and newly ordained priest, Jean de Matha, saw while saying his first mass a vision of an angel…