In 2015, doctors gave Gianna Grace Masciantonio a few weeks to live. Named after Saint Gianna and the Blessed Mother, Gianna seemed healthy at birth. But an MRI revealed that a tumor was entwined around the stem of her brain. With no surgical options, the doctors sent Gianna and her family home. Gianna’s parents, Kristen …
Baby Gianna, Kissed by Pope Francis, Beats Brain Tumor Read More »
PORTUGAL – October 13, 2017 marks 100 years since the miracle of the sun occurred. In a series of apparitions to three young children in Portugal in 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary urged the world to repent, pray the rosary, and spread a devotion to the Holy Eucharist. She also promised the children that there would …
SAN ANGELO – Father Stefano Cecchin is a Vatican postulator who presents the case for the canonization or beatification of someone in the Catholic Church. This week, he is touring the San Angelo Concho River in Texas, where tradition holds that an apparition of Maria de Jesus de Agreda – the Lady in Blue – …
Vatican Official Researches Miraculous Apparitions in Texas Read More »
The Basilica della Santa Casa (the Basilica of the Holy House) is a beautiful Marian shrine and pilgrimage destination found in Loreto, Italy. The house sits about three miles away from the sea. The house in which the Virgin Mary is believed to have lived with the Holy Family is enshrined inside the basilica. But the …
Portugal – May 13 marks 100 years since the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in Fatima. The three children who saw Our Lady at the Cova da Iria were Lúcia Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. The Virgin visited the three children six times, appearing on the 13th of each month from May to October of …
100 years ago today, Our Lady appeared at Fatima Read More »
A new pilgrimage destination has been named, thanks to the power of the internet. Word of a Virgin Mary statue in Floridablanca, Colombia, has gotten out, attracting religious aficionados due to one peculiar feature: A bloody “tear-drop” that appears to be running down her cheek. Members of the community, who pray at the statue daily, …
One Tear from Blessed Virgin Statue Sparks Pilgrimages Read More »