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The most beautiful stories...
story0803-Trust of Blessed Alphonsus Salmeron
Oh, how sweet it is to die, when one has loved Mary from his tenderest youth!
story0829-Extraordinary conversion.
His ideas underwent the most bizarre reversal; he abandoned all pious practice and armed himself with a cynicism that despaired of all those who had a sincere interest in him.
story0922-A worker seduced by the Mother of God
“I had always heard that Mary was the Refuge of the unfortunate, the Comforter of the afflicted. I began to pray to Her, and with all the ardor of which I was capable…”
story0804-Mary’s gentle reproach
If I am beautiful, why do you want to abandon Me for another wife?” She said to him; “don’t I have enough attractions for you?
story0830-The assassin of Cardinal Antonelli
The brigand swooped down on him and was about to pierce him with his murderous weapon; but the cardinal, protected by Heaven, pushed aside the fatal steel and called for help…
story0924-Conversion of young Arabs.
The news of their conversion made a stir; their father came, all boiling with anger, to rebuke them and force them to deny their new faith; but the firmness of the young Christians remained unshakeable, it triumphed over pressure, tenderness and threats alike.
story0807-The devil painted from life
The pious painter had represented at the feet of the powerful Virgin Mary, the hideous image of Satan, whose head She was crushing.
story0831-Punishment and forgiveness
But though I ask God to heal me, though I hope for it from His mercy, I must not complain, I do not complain. This wound has been a remedy for many souls, especially for mine.
story0925-Pilgrimage of Father de Géramb to Our Lady of the Guard.
Sailors and passengers, we thought we were lost; I read on all the faces the apprehension of an imminent, inevitable catastrophe, and I shared the common anxiety.
story0808-Madame Rivier’s recourse to Mary
Still a small child when she already loved to spend whole hours at the feet of her Patroness.
story0901-Mary helps the missionaries in danger.
The waters were so high that, more than once, we were almost swallowed up in chasms…
story0926-The memory of a mother saves a great sinner.
For fifteen years at least, he had been living in the most shameful habits, totally removed from any external practice of religion.
story0809-Mary’s promises justified
These distressing thoughts increased in violence from moment to moment; the Saint was overwhelmed by them, when his good Mother presented herself to him. “Bernard, what are you afraid of?”
story0903-The artist is found innocent.
No, it is not possible that the man in whom such an ideal feeling is manifested could have committed the crime of which he is accused. The execution must be suspended and the trial revised.
story0927-A young girl healed by Mary consecrates herself to God.
Her illness increased greatly, and she was for two or three months in a continual agitation of her whole body, to the point that it took two people to support her on all sides.
story0810-A soldier’s unshakable confidence.
All I could see were flaming bombs, cannonballs, and projectiles that darkened the sky. Death was mercilessly reaping its victims. For me, my thoughts were entirely in Heaven and in Mary.
story0904-Short prayer of a poor mother granted by Mary.
This prayer was very simple, but it was very sincere and animated by the most lively confidence; therefore it went up to the Heart of Mary.
story0928-The vocation obtained by the august Mary.
One day, therefore, when he had resolved to attend an all-worldly party, his eyes chanced to fall upon an old book, the first page of which presented him with the powerful prayer composed by St. Bernard: “Remember Thou, O most pious Virgin Mary.”
story0812-Virtue of the litanies of the Blessed Virgin
Curious, they entered the sanctuary. One choir sang: “Holy Mary, pray for us”; the other choir answered: “Holy Mother of God, intercede for us”.
story0905-Mary Consoler of the captives.
Their vulnerability and the unjust perseverance of their persecutors in mistreating them made them take a cowardly resolution which would have precipitated them into the ultimate misfortune if God, who is infinite in His mercies and who has compassion on the weaknesses of men, had not pulled them out of this deep abyss by an effect of His omnipotence.
story0930-The sinner converted by a vision.
Benoîte saw herself in hell where she heard the screams of those whose loss she had caused.
story0813-The soldier, the Blessed Virgin and the orphan
After a year, he came to see his dear child… The superior said to him: “Take him back, he is spoiling the whole house; he has not responded to your views!…”
story0907-How much sin displeases Mary.
Take this sword, and pierce Me rather than wound My Son by this sin.
story1011-Mary, Queen of Heaven and Mother of all people, cannot be overly honored
Revelation from Heaven to confirm devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
story0814-The prisoner answered by Mary
A schoolmaster who, after having led the most abominable life, was brought before the courts and condemned to prison and to bread and water for the rest of his life.
