story0824-Young man saved from a fire
My pillow was burning, my mattress also burned, the wood of bed, on the side of my head, was only one burning coal; my small room was filled of a smoke so thick, that as soon as I had opened the door to call for help, the house was all filled of it at once.
story0823-an -errand-for-the-blessed-virgin
Out of propriety, the young man bowed; but the errand was scarcely to his taste: he did not care for devotion.
story0822-A Protestant minister confused by a catechumen
A catechumen from Oceania, wearing the rosary around his neck according to custom, found himself in an assembly in the presence of an Anglican missionary. The opportunity to insult Mary, and to win an easy victory, was too good to pass up.
story0821-true-courage
Oh! answered Vincent, I invoked the good Virgin Mary and I felt wings: She sent me Her angels, because I had to save your life: yesterday you wanted to kill me.
story0820-A touching prayer answered
The sight of the dangers she would have to face made her dread the hour of separation, and she begged the Lord to call her back to Himself if He foresaw that her virtue would make a sad shipwreck.
story0819-a-providential-missionary
All my life I have had a great devotion to Mary. For six years that I have been traveling in the mountains, among different nations, I have not yet had the happiness of meeting a priest.
story0818-The prayer to Mary at the First Communion
I was brought up as badly as possible, in the religious respect, not only in ignorance of the truth, but in the taste, in the respect, in the superstition of error, and I left my classes well equipped with arguments against Our Lord and against the Catholic Church…
story0817-Courage of Sister Rosalie
It was in her faith, her love for God and her tender devotion to the Blessed Virgin that she drew the heroic strength that made her endure all the hardships, and the superhuman courage that made her insensitive to danger.
story0816-flowers-offered-to-mary
The poor woman followed her child’s advice; a few days later she had plenty of work.
story0815-An old sinner healed and converted by the Holy Virgin
His driver immediately asked for a counter-poison; but while it was being prepared, the priest touched the patient’s pulse and found none: a livid complexion, cloudy eyes, everything announced a forthcoming death.
