365 Days with Mary - 2014 Marian Daily Calendar
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The 2014 edition of the Marian engagement calendar features a daily sobriquet of Our Lady that derives from a solemnity, feast day, patronage, apparition or miraculous icon related to that date. Each week reveals beautiful full-page artwork that highlights that week’s most famous or unique image of Mary. With sufficient writing space to add your own prayer, reflection or events for that day, you will be able to live each day in the celebration of your own personal Marian Year.
St. Mary, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK , 5th cent. - Second Sunday of June
In the 600s, a swineherd named Eoves saw an apparition of three women singing psalms and heavenly melodies. He told Bishop Egwin, who went the next day to the same place and saw the same vision. Bishop Egwin knew that the woman holding an open book a...
Madonna Ta' Lourdes, Qrendi, Malta , 1878 - Second Sunday of July
In 1878, 20 years after the apparitions at Lourdes, the parish priest of Qrendi on Malta's south coast started a Confraternity of Our Lady of Lourdes there and commissioned Maltese sculptor Carlo Darmanin to make a statue for a Lourdes chapel in the ...
Maria Annunzjata, Balzan, Malta , 1868 - Second Sunday of July
Balzan's Catholic church was built in the late 1600s. Its altarpiece featured a painting of the Annunciation. In 1859 a new one by Guiseppe Calleja replaced it. But the glory of the parish is the 1868 Annunciation by Maltese woodcarver Salvatore Dime...
Majke Bozje Bistricke (Mother of God of Bistrica), Marija Bistrica, Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia , 15th cent. - First Sunday before Feast of St. Margaret
The statue of the Mother of God of Bistrica is a Black Madonna of the late 1400s, buried for safekeeping from the Turks in 1545 and rediscovered, with the aid of supernatural light, in 1588. Again forgotten and walled in, it was rediscovered July 15,...
Madonna del Soccorso, Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, Sicily, Italy , 1718 - July 13, August 21
As the entire town prayed to Our Lady of Help, her apparition scared off an attacking English fleet, July 13, 1718; annual reenactment. Festa August 21....
Virgen del Mar, Puntarenas, Costa Rica , 1913 - First Sunday before Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Aylesford, England
In 1913, news came to the young port of Puntarenas that a pearl fishing boat, the Galileo, was wrecked in a storm with all its crew on board. The ship's owner, Panamanian Don Hermenegildo Cruz Ayala, went to the parish church in Puntarenas and, with ...