History of Marian Apparition History… Part Eight
Statue of the Virgin with an aerial view Quito, Ecuador  1594, Our Lady Appears in Quito, Ecuador From the website, Tradition on Action[2, 3], along with some information from The Miracle Hunter [1], is the story of the apparition of Our Lady in Quito: It is common knowledge that one of the most well known […]
History of Marian Apparition History… Part Six
Above: AVILA, SPAIN, APRIL – 19, 2016: The St. Theresia of Avila with the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph in church of Real Mo nasterio de Santo Tomas by unknown artist of 18. cent  1563: St Teresa of Avila (of Jesus) From the website of the Discalced Carmelites, General Curia of the Teresian Carmel St […]
The Rededication of England as the Dowry of Mary
Above: Painting by Amanda de Pulford of Our Lady of Walsingham to be blessed by Pope Francis, Independent Catholic News, 02/08/2020 The Re-dedication of England as the Dowry of Mary on March 29th is both a personal promise of the people of our country and a renewal of the entrustment vows made by King Richard […]
Our Lady of Loreto and the Holy House of Loreto … Marian Apparition History… Part Four
Pope Francis prays inside the Sanctuary of the Holy House on the feast of the Annunciation in Loreto, Italy, March 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Â The 1200’s continued… Our Lady of Loreto and the Holy House of Loreto We are including this site in the history of Marian apparitions as tradition holds this is the […]
History of Marian Apparition History… Part Five
Above: Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Tilma (original paint), Mexico City, Mexico The 1500’s: Our Lady appears to Juan Diego From CatholicSpirit.com After the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the 16th century, Franciscan missionaries seeking to convert the Aztecs to Christianity destroyed their temples and idols. The missionaries claimed they were acting in the […]
History of Marian Apparitions … Part Two
Photo above: aeriel view of Monastery of Montserrat (home of Black Madonna) in Catalonia, Spain. Panoramic view from the top of the mountain. The 900’s In 963, St. Athanasius, the Athonite, establishes a monastery dedicated to the Mother of God on Mt. Athos peninsula in Greece. Here the original Icon to Our Lady of Iveron […]
St. Priscilla of Rome
Early Christian ceiling art depicting Good Shepherd, sheep and birds. – Photo was taken inside the Catacombs of St. Priscilla, October 2019. Today is the Feast Day of St. Priscilla of Rome (1st c.). She was a Christian noblewoman who served as a benefactor to the Christian community in Rome. She supported St. Peter the […]
History of Marian Apparitions … Part Three
Photo above of the painted ceiling detail of the church of the “Madonna del Carmine” The 1200’s In 1251, St. Simon Stock receives the Brown Scapular from Mary. As told in a blog post over at Catholicism Pure & Simple, on May 16, 2012: Saint Simon Stock was born to a very illustrious family in […]
The Wondrous Exchange Between Divinity and Humanity – Part 5
Adoration of the Magi [PD-US-expired] Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370-427) an Italian painter in the Gothic style who worked in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best-known work is this painting from the Strozzi Altarpiece (1423), now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy By Pope Benedict XVI, Public Catechesis, January 4 2012, continued: It is […]
The Wondrous Exchange Between Divinity and Humanity – Part 4
Nativity By Giovanni Camandu da Mondovi (1746-1822), an Italian painter who studied in Rome but worked mostly in Turin. This painting is in the Duomo of Turin, Italy By Pope Benedict XVI, Public Catechesis, January 4 2012, continued: First of all, let us ask ourselves: what is the first reaction to this extraordinary action of […]