Holy Mother of Akita, Akita, Tohuku, Japan , 1973 - July 6, June 12
On the night of July 6, 1973, at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist in Akita, Sister Agnes Sasagawa couldn't sleep because of the driving pain of a cross-shaped wound on her palm, which had formed several days previously and recently beg...
Pani Kujaw, Markowice, Strzelno, Mogilno, Kuyavia-Pomerania, Poland , 1475 - First Sunday of July
Located in north central Poland, the Sanctuary of the Queen of Love and Peace, Our Lady of Kuyavia, is known for a statue of the Virgin and Child dated c1475, kept by the Norbertine Sisters until 1630, when Lord Markowicz brought it to his lands duri...
Notre-Dame-Trouvée, Lavoûte-Chilhac, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France , 1496 - First Sunday of July
Our Lady the Found is said to be the "world's smallest Virgin." On July 8, 1496, two little girls were playing on the banks of the Allier, striking stones one against the other to make sparks. Suddenly, just as a flint was scratched, a half-inch stat...
Nostra Signora di Bonaria / Our Lady fo Bonaria (Cagliari, Italy) (Cagliari, Italy) , 1370 - First Sunday of July, March 25, April 24
On 25 March, while in the whole Church celebrates the Annunciation of the Virgin, in a solemn manner in Bonaria remembers a key date in its history: the arrival of the statue of the Virgin prodigious, which took place in the year 1370. The small chur...