The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated ... us a detailed account of the birth of Mary which begins in the fifth chapter and even gives a detailed conversation between ...

In medieval art the Blessed Virgin is often shown kneeling at a priedieu, totally taken up in reading and prayer. Renaissance art sometimes shows the child Mary reading a book, with her parents ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe first introduced herself as the Mother ... when St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an early Franciscan missionary, saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on his way ...

Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Day Two Be blessed, O most pure Virgin ...