The Sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Archetto is the smallest Marian shrine in Rome. The image of Maria, Causa nostrae laetitiae (Mary, Cause of Our Joy),…
Our Lady the Found is said to be the “world’s smallest Virgin.” On July 8, 1496, two little girls were playing on the banks of…
The story goes that as the Lombard hordes approached in 641, villagers of Soviore buried their statue of the Madonna for safekeeping and fled toward…
On the night of July 6, 1973, at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist in Akita, Sister Agnes Sasagawa couldn’t sleep because of…
In the year 1472, the statue in the shrine of Our Lady of Cambray was dedicated by Peter de Ranchicourt, the Bishop of Arras. The…
Jesuit missionary Juan José Güica brought a painting of Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners from Italy to Mexico in 1720. In a dream, the Virgin…
A Hodegetria (Greek: Ὁδηγήτρια, literally: “She who shows the Way”; Russian: Одигитрия), or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to…
Origin of the name: The title “Our Lady of Grace” should be understood in two respects: Mary Most Holy is the one who brings the…
Every supernatural grace coming to mankind after the Fall of Adam, flows from the bloody sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. Almighty God could have…