St. John Bosco wrote to his students: «I want to tell you a dream I had some nights ago, most probably on the eve of the Assumption. I dreamed that I was at my brother’s home at Castelnuovo d’ Asti with all my…
Our Lady of the Snows was the first church in Rome to be dedicated to Our Lady. In the 4th century Pope Liberius added a lateral hall to a large existing hall of a Roman patrician palace and dedicated it…
St. Peter Julian Eymard had a strong devotion to the Holy Eucharist and Our Lady and began his priestly life in the Society of Mary. “But his heart burned with the desire to establish perpetual adoration of Jesus in the…
Bernadette Soubirous was the child of two pious peasants who lived near the Grotto of Lourdes (France), very poor, but very honest and simple. On February 11, 1858, when Bernadette was fourteen years old, she was sent with her sister,…
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in Wadowice, Poland, on May 18th, 1920, and died in Vatican City on April 2nd, 2005. Elected Pope on October 16th, 1978, he took the name of John Paul II. He was canonized on April…
Since very early Father Molina was already preaching about Mary as the place for the Encounter with God: “On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they…
