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6 days ago · 25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Seven Promises of Our Lady for those who recite the chaplet daily: Our Blessed Mother revealed these seven promises to St. Bridget of Sweden in the 14th century.
1 day ago · Josephologyof the Catholic Church. Saint Joseph (c. 1640) by Guido Reni. Joseph ( Hebrew: יוסף, romanized : Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized : Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
1 day ago · Our Lady of Medjugorje ( Croatian: Međugorska Gospa ), also called Queen of Peace ( Croatian: Kraljica mira) and Mother of the Redeemer ( Croatian: Majka Otkupiteljica ), is the title given to alleged visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said to have begun in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat teenagers in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at ...
5 days ago · On the rainy evening of Aug. 21, 1879, 15 persons saw a two-hour vision on the gable of St. John the Baptist church in the humble village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. Whoever came, saw. Ranging from 5-75 years of age, they acknowledged seeing the same religious tableaux. The figures, all robed in white, were raised a couple of feet above the ...
1 day ago · Gleason Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties suggests that the word ‘first’ in Luke 2:2 means the Roman Census of 8 B.C. “would then be that the census that took Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem was the one that Augustus made before the one he took when Quirinius was governor of Syria (in A.D. 6).”. If Herod, who died in 4 BC, is ...
1 day ago · Joseph Pronechen, July 28, 2023. On July 29 and Sept. 12, scores of pilgrims come to the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Perugia, Italy, to see and venerate a sacred object — a relic said to be the Blessed Virgin Mary’s wedding ring. Although the residents of Perugia knew about this ring for several hundreds of years, those outside the city ...
9 hours ago · Mary Elizabeth Anderson was born on Feb. 19, 1866, on Burton Hill Plantation in Greene County, Alabama, to John C. and Rebecca Anderson. The Civil War had ended only 10 months earlier.
