Among the best-known Marian apparitions of recent centuries were the appearances of Our Lady to a French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes in southwestern France, near the Spanish border.

Invoking Mother Mary under favored titles can help us increase our Marian devotion, beginning this October, the Month of the Rosary. L to R: The Jaminet family makes time with Mother Mary a priority.

Lourdes (AsiaNews) The pope, with weary voice, confidently began the rosary at the Grotto of Massabielle this afternoon at 17.30. "Before the grotto of Massabielle," said John Paul II, " I feel deeply ...

Do you have a favorite song that brings back to your heart precious events in your life that you want to keep alive? Praying the holy rosary is like singing your favorite song, every Hail Mary allows ...

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...

The holy relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes will be brought to the church as part of a special pilgrimage The holy relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes, who the Virgin Mary appeared to in 1858, will be ...