Besides commemorating the presentation of Christ in the Temple, this day has another meaning, for it is called Candlemass Day. The candle is one of…
The feast of the Presentation of the Virgin celebrates Joachim and Anne’s offering of their child Mary to the Temple in Jerusalem, at the age…
In 1363, Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania conquered Kherson (now in Ukraine), and brought back its holy icon of the Mother of God as a…
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,…
