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Prayer Intention – For all the unemployed Zarvanytsia is a small village with just over 300 citizens. The village is known for its icon of the Mother of God, reputed to work miracles and is a popular site of pilgrimage, attracting Ukrainians both from the country as well as the diaspora scattered around the world. The history of the village and the icon dates back to the 13th century. In 1240, a monk fled the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, which was devastated by a Mongol invasion, and stopped in a secluded valley to drink water from a spring and pray to the Blessed Virgin. Having done so, and ...

workers and entrepreneurs On the American continent, Marian devotion is frequently centred around the figure of our Blessed Mother as she appeared in December of 1531 to the native American Saint Juan Diego at Tepeyac Hill in the area of modern-day Mexico City. Our Blessed Mother actually appeared four times to Saint Juan Diego and once to his dying elderly uncle, Juan Bernardino. The fourth appearance to Saint Juan Diego was the most wonderful. A brief account of the apparitions will help to appreciate better God the Father’s purpose in sending the Blessed Mother to the American continent ...

The Ta’ Pinu Basilica is located is the village of Gharb in the North Western Part of the island.  It is particularly known for its annexed museum recording hundreds of stories of alleged miracles, making the church a famous site for pilgrimages. The origins of the Shrine of Our Lady of ta’ Pinu are unknown. It was first recorded in the archives of the Curia in Gozo, when the Bishop Domenico Cubelles paid a visit to the chapel. This noted that the chapel had just been rebuilt and that it belonged to the noble family of “The Gentile”. In 1575 the apostolic visitor Pietro Dusina was de...

In Myanmar there is widespread devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Every year thousands of people including non-Christians make the pilgrimage to the Shrine with deep devotion. The celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes dates to the arrival of the first missionaries from France. In 1892, Bishop Ambrose Bigandet opened a mission at Nyaunglebin, entrusting it to the care of Father Michael Mignon, a member of the Parish Foreign Missions Society who built a small wooden church, the first in Myanmar to be dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1902 a new church was built and consecrated. I...