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Virgin Mary
Mary was the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus Christ, who was conceived within her by the Holy Spirit when she was a virgin. She is often called the “Virgin Mary,”. She was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of Joachim and Ann. In the Catholic faith, her feast day is celebrated on September 8.
938 Questions
Who was the little girl who first saw Mary?
I'm not sure what you are asking, dozens of approved VISIONARIES have been approved as worthy of belief over the past twenty centuries, and I would say that perhaps half of them would fit your description of "little girl". From the website the miraclehunter:http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/visionaries/
Here is a list of approved Visionaries from the 19th and 20th centuries:
St. Catherine Laboure
Birth: May 2, 1806
Death:
December 31, 1876
Country: Rue du Bac, Paris, France
First Vision:
July 18, 1830
Age: 24
Last Vision:
Nov 27, 1830
Canonization: July 27, 1947
Notes: Joined Daughters of Charity (1830);
Body lies incorruptible in Rue du Bac.
Maximin Giraud
Birth: Aug 26, 1835
Death: March 1, 1875
Country: Corps, France
First Vision: Sept 19,1846
Age: 11
Last Vision: Sept 19,1846
Melanie Calvat
Birth: November 7, 1831
Death: Dec 15, 1904
Country:Corps, France
First Vision: Sept 19,1846
Age:14
Last Vision: Sept 19,1846
St. Bernadette Soubirous
Birth: Jan 7, 1844
Death: April 16, 1879
Country: Lourdes, France
First Vision: Feb 11, 1858
Age: 14
Last Vision: July 16, 1858
Canonization: December 8, 1933
Notes: Joined Congregation of the Sisters of Charity (1866);
Body lies incorruptible in Nevers, France.
Eugene Barbadette
Birth: 1859
Death:
Age:12
First Vision: January 17, 1871
Country: Pontmain, France
Last Vision: January 17, 1871
Francoise Richer
Birth: 1860
Death:
Age:11
First Vision: January 17, 1871
Country: Pontmain, France
Last Vision: January 17, 1871
Jeanne-Marie Lebosse
Birth: 1862
Death:
Age:9
First Vision: January 17, 1871
Country: Pontmain, France
Last Vision: January 17, 1871
Eugene Friteau
Birth: 1865
Death:
Age:6
First Vision: Jan 17, 1871
Country: Pontmain, France
Last Vision: Jan 17, 1871
Pellevoisin
Estelle Fagguette
Birth: Sept 12, 1843
Death: Aug 23, 1929
Age: 33
First Vision: Feb 10, 1876
Country: Pellevoisin, France
Last Vision: Dec 8, 1876
Lucia dos Santos
Birth: March 28, 1907
Death: Feb 13, 2005
Age:9
First Vision: May 13, 1917
Country: Portugal
Last Vision: May 18, 1936
Jacinta Marto
Birth: March 11, 1910
Death: Feb 20, 1920
Country: Portugal
First Vision: May 13, 1917
Age: 8
Last Vision: 1920
Beatification: May 13, 2000
Francisco Marto
Birth: June 11, 1908
Death: April 4, 1919
Country: Portugal
First Vision: May 13, 1917
Age: 7
Last Vision: Oct 13, 1917
Beatification: May 13, 2000
Fernande Voisin
Birth: June 21, 1917
Death: May 9, 1979
Age:15
First Vision: Nov 29, 1932
Country: Belgium
Last Vision: Jan 3, 1933
Andree Degeimbre
Birth: April 19, 1918
Death: June 11, 1978
Country: Belgium
First Vision: Nov 29, 1932
Age:14
Last Vision: Jan 3, 1933
Gilberte Voisin
Birth: June 20, 1919
Death: January 3, 2003
Country: Belgium
First Vision: November 29, 1932
Age: 11
Last Vision: January 3, 1933
Gilberte Degeimbre
Birth: August 13, 1923
Death:
Country: Belgium
First Vision: Nov 29, 1932
Age: 9
Last Vision: Jan 3, 1933
Albert Voisin
Birth: September 3, 1921
Death: December 23rd, 2003
Country: Belgium
First Vision: Nov 29, 1932
Age: 11
Last Vision: Jan 3, 1933
Mariette Beco
Birth:
March 25, 1921
Death: Dec 2, 2011
Age:11
First Vision: Jan 15, 1933
Country: Belgium
Last Vision: Feb 20, 1933
Sister Agnes Sasagawa
Birth: 1930
Death:
Age:43
First Vision: July 6, 1973
Country: Japan
Last Vision: Oct 13, 1973
Profile: Member of Order of the Handmaids of the Eucharist
Mrs. Maria Esperanza de Bianchini
Birth: Nov 22, 1928
Death: Aug 7, 2004
Age: 45
First Vision: March 25, 1976
Country: Venezuela
Last Vision: Dec 8, 1989
Profile: Healer, mystic, and visionary
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Alphonsine Mumureke
Birth :1964
Death:
Age: 17
First Vision: Nov. 28, 1981
Country: Rwanda
Last Vision: Nov. 28, 1989
Profile:
Nathalie Mukamazimpaka
Birth :1962
Death:
Age: 20
First Vision: Jan 1982
Country: Rwanda
Last Vision: Dec. 3, 1983
Profile:
Marie Claire Mukangango
Birth: 1961
Death: 1994
Age: 21
First Vision: March 2, 1982
Country: Rwanda
Last Vision: Sept. 15, 1982
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What were the names of Virgin Mary's parents and why are they not mentioned in the Bible?
A:
An early Christian tradition was that Mary's parents were called Joachim and Anne, although there is no biblical support for that tradition. Both Joachim and Anne are regarded as saints in the Catholic Church.
A later tradition is based on the contradiction between the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, in which two different fathers are named for Joseph. Theologians since the eighth century have argued that the genealogy in Lukeis actually the family tree of Mary, and that Heli is her father, in which case Joachim ceases to exist. Heli is supported by most Protestants and some Catholics as the father of Mary, but this is not a universal assumption even among Catholics.
Heli is mentioned in the Bible, but most New Testament scholars recognise that Luke's genealogy is clearly intended to show Heli to be the father of Joseph, not of Mary - although many also say that this genealogy is not historical. Joachim and Anne are not in the Bible and are unlikely ever to have existed. We do not really know the names of Mary's parents.
Catholic Answer:
We get their names from an apocryphal document called the Gospel of James, though in no way should this document be trusted to be factual, historical, or the Word of God. They could have been named Homer and Marge for all we know. Whatever their names or the facts of their lives, the truth is that it was the parents of Mary who nurtured Mary, taught her, brought her up to be a worthy Mother of God. It was their teaching that led her to respond to God's request with faith, "Let it be done to me as you will." It was their example of parenting that Mary must have followed as she brought up her own son, Jesus. It was their faith that laid the foundation of courage and strength that allowed her to stand by the cross as her son was crucified and still believe.
Who is Mary Harris Mother Jones' mom?
Mary Harris but she was raised by her father Richard Harris and his wife Ellen.
How can you convert to Christianity in Syria?
You can convert to Christianity in any part of the world simply by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour. No paper work, documentation, etc. Simply believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, that he died for our sin and was risen from the dead. Then confess that you are a sinner, ask God to forgive you of your sins and turn away from a sinful life style. Jesus will help you with the turning away from sin part because it is impossible to do it on our own. Please let me know how it goes and may God bless your efforts.
How did Mary live out the Beautitues?
The fate of Mary, mother of Jesus, is a subject of debate among scholars as her actual death is not described in the Bible. Instead, religious authorities within portions of Orthodox and Catholic belief systems state that Mary was taken up bodily into Heaven at the end of her life. This belief is commonly called "The Assumption of Mary."
Is the Assumption of Mary being taken into heaven body and soul a Catholic doctrine?
Yes, the Assumption of Mary is a Catholic dogma, which is a doctrine taught by the Church to be believed by all the faithful as part of divine revelation. (from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980)
Pope Pius XII, in his Apostolic Constitution, Munificentissimus Deus, of November 1, 1950, proclaimed this dogma in the following carefully selected words:
By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we proclaim, declare, and define as a dogma revealed by God: the Immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever Virgin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven. (CCC, pars. 996, 974; Hardon, CC 154-155, 160-163; Hardon, PCD, 32)
Ludwig Ott presents some of the biblical indications of the Assumption:
Direct and express scriptural proofs are not to be had. The possibility of the bodily assumption before the second coming of Christ is not excluded by 1 Corinthians, 15:23, as the objective Redemption was completed with the sacrificial death of Christ, and the beginning of the final era foretold by the prophets commenced. Its probability is suggested by Matthew 27:52-53: "And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose, and coming out of the tombs after His Resurrection came into the holy city and appeared to many." According to the more probable explanation, which was already expounded by the Fathers, the awakening of the "saints" was a final resurrection and transfiguration. If, however, the justified of the Old Covenant were called to the perfection of salvation immediately after the conclusion of the redemptive work of Christ, then it is possible and probable that the Mother of the Lord was called to it also.
From her fullness of grace spoken of in Luke 1:28, Scholastic theology derives the doctrine of the bodily assumption and glorification of Mary. Since she was full of grace, she remained preserved from the three-fold curse of sin (Gen. 3:16-19), as well as from her return to dust . . .
Modern theology usually cites Genesis 3:15 in support of the doctrine. Since by "the seed of the woman" it understands Christ, and by "the woman", Mary, it is argued that as Mary had an intimate share in Christ's battle against Satan and in His victory over Satan and sin, she must also have participated intimately in His victory over death. It is true that the literal reference of the text is to Eve and not Mary, but already since the end of the second century (St. Justin), Tradition has seen in Mary the new Eve. (Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, 208-209. For the "New Eve" typology, see Catechism of the Catholic Church, pars. 411, 494, 511, 726, 975.)
Lest one think that a bodily ascent into Heaven (of a creature, as opposed to Jesus) is impossible and "biblically unthinkable," Holy Scripture contains the examples of Enoch (Heb. 11:5; cf. Gen 5:24), Elijah (2 Kings 2:1, 11), St. Paul's being caught up to the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2-4), possibly bodily, and events during the Second Coming (1 Thess. 4:15-17), believed by many Evangelicals to constitute the "Rapture," an additional return of Christ for believers only. All of these occur by virtue of the power of God, not the intrinsic ability of the persons.
The Assumption of the Blessed virgin flows of necessity from the Immaculate Conception and Mary's actual sinlessness....
In Addition:
If one understands scripture, the Assumption of Mary can be found there.
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
"For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
However, Mary was exempted from death and corruption because of her Immaculate Conception. She was born without the stain of Original Sin.
Then in Saint Luke's Gospel the Angel Gabriel in addressing Mary at the Annunciation:
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,"
Had Mary carried the stain of Original Sin, she could not have been described as 'full of grace.'
So, the Doctrine of the Assumption of Mary was not a new revelation. It had always been found in scripture. It just took a proper interpretation. Mary, because of her unique position of being conveived without sin was not subjected to the normal death and corruption of all other humans.
When did the Legion of Mary start?
The Legion of Mary was founded by Frank Duff on September 7, 1921 in Dublin. For more information on Legion of Mary click the link below
What is heat and cold wave and also the first aid for it?
A HEAT WAVE is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity. There is no universal definition of a heat wave; the term is relative to the usual weather in the area. Temperatures that people from a hotter climate consider normal can be termed a heat wave in a cooler area if they are outside the normal climate pattern for that area.The term is applied both to routine weather variations and to extraordinary spells of heat which may occur only once a century. Severe heat waves have caused catastrophic crop failures, thousands of deaths from hyperthermia, and widespread power outages due to increased use of air conditioning.
A cold wave is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by marked cooling of the air, or attention due to the hazards of tissue damage and organ failure. They can cause death and injury to livestock and wildlife. Exposure to cold mandates greater caloric intake for all animals, including humans, and if a cold wave is accompanied by heavy and persistent snow, grazing animals may be unable to reach needed food and die of hypothermia or starvation. They often necessitate the purchase of foodstuffs at considerable cost to farmers to feed livestock.
Extreme winter cold often causes poorly insulated water pipelines and mains to freeze. Even some poorly-protected indoor plumbing ruptures as water expands within them, causing much damage to property and costly insurance claims. Demand for electrical power and fuels rises dramatically during such times, even though the generation of electrical power may fail due to the freezing of water necessary for the generation of hydroelectricity. Some metals may become brittle at low temperatures. Motor vehicles may fail as antifreeze fails and motor oil gels, resulting even in the failure of the transportation system. To be sure, such is more likely in places like Siberia and much of Canada that customarily get very cold weather.
Fires, paradoxically, become even more of a hazard during extreme cold. Water mains may break and water supplies may become unreliable, making firefighting more difficult. The air during a cold wave is typically more dense and any cold air that a fire draws in is likely to cause a more intense fire because the colder, denser air contains more oxygen.
Winter cold waves that aren't considered cold in some areas, but cause temperatures significantly below average for an area, are also destructive. Areas with subtropical climates may recognize unusual cold, perhaps barely-freezing, temperatures, as a cold wave. In such places, plant and animal life is less tolerant of such cold as may appear rarely. The same winter temperatures that one associates with the norm for Kentucky, northern Utah, or Bavaria would be catastrophic to winter crops in southern Florida, southern Arizona, or southern Italy that might be grown for wintertime consumption farther north, or to such all-year tropical or subtropical crops as citrus fruits. Likewise, abnormal cold waves that penetrate into tropical countries in which people do not customarily insulate houses or have reliable heating may cause hypothermia and even frostbite.
COLD WAVES bring unexpected freezes and frosts during the growing season in mid-latitude zones can kill plants during the early and most vulnerable stages of growth, resulting in crop failure as plants are killed before they can be harvested economically. Such cold waves have caused famines. At times as deadly to plants as drought, cold waves can leave a land in danger of later brush and forest fires that consume dead biomass. One extreme was the so-called Year Without a Summer of 1816, one of several years during the 1810s in which numerous crops failed during freakish summer cold snaps after volcanic eruptions that reduced incoming sunlight.
Countermeasures
In some places (like Siberia), extreme cold requires that fuel-powered machinery to be used even part-time must be run continuously. Internal plumbing can be wrapped, and persons can often run water continuously through pipes. Energy conservation, difficult as it is in a cold wave, may require such measures as collecting people (especially the poor and elderly) in communal shelters. Even the homeless may be arrested and taken to shelters, only to be released when the hazard abates.[1] Hospitals can prepare for the admission of victims of frostbite and hypothermia; schools and other public buildings can be converted into shelters.
People can stock up on food, water, and other necessities before a cold wave. Some may even choose to migrate to places of milder climates, at least during the winter. Suitable stocks of forage can be secured before cold waves for livestock, and livestock in vulnerable areas might be shipped from affected areas or even slaughtered. Smudge pots can bring smoke that prevents hard freezes on a farm or grove. Vulnerable crops may be sprayed with water that will paradoxically protect the plant
What is the controversy surrounding the Immaculate Conception?
Protestants basically say, "If it isn't in the Bible, it didn't happen."
Does it speak of Virgin Mary's death in the Bible?
No
Though it was almost universally believed for more than a thousand years, the Bible contains no mention of the assumption of Mary into heaven. The first Church writer to speak of Mary's being taken up into heaven by God is Saint Gregory of Tours (594). Other early sermons on the Feast of Mary's entry into heaven are those of Ps.-Modestus of Jerusalem (ca. 700).
On May 1, 1946, Pope Pius XII, asked all bishops in the world whether they thought this belief in the assumption of Mary into heaven should be defined as a proposition of faith, and whether they with their clergy and people desired the definition. Almost all the bishops replied in the affirmative.
On November 1, 1950, the Feast of All Saints, Pope Pius XII declared as a dogma revealed by God that "Mary, the immaculate perpetually Virgin Mother of God, after the completion of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into the glory of Heaven".
We have no real knowledge of the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death. The dates which have been assigned to her death vary between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension. Both Jerusalem and Ephesus claim to be the place where she died. (By tradition, Mary lived at Ephesus after the death of Jesus.) Mary's tomb was presumably found in Jerusalem. It is believed that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that after her burial, her tomb, when opened, was found empty. Therefore, they concluded that her body had been taken up (assumed) into heaven.
Does the Blessed Mother Mary have any siblings?
Yes, the Bible accounts for at least one sibling, a sister, in John 19:25. It reads, "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene." (NIV)
Actually, Mary of Cleophas was the wife of Saint Joseph's brother, Cleophas. Therefore, she was the sister-in-law of the Blessed Virgin, not a sister. It would indeed be a strange occurrence if Anne and Joachin named two daughers Mary. Catholic tradition has always held that Mary was an only child.
What does Saint Mary Nascent refer to?
It refers to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is observed on September 8.
Is Artemis anologous to Virgin Mary?
Somewhat. Both are celestial virgin figures that people look to for divine help. Some Artemis art affected depictions of the Virgin Mary.
There are more differences though:
Artemis is a greek goddess.
Mary is a human.
Greeks worshiped Artemis.
Although some Christians pray to Mary for help and honor her greatly, they do not worship her.
Why is Saint Mary's house in Turkey?
After Our Lord's death, resurrection and ascension, St. John the Apostle took Mary in as his mother. They moved for a time to Ephesus which is now part of modern Turkey.
Does Blessed Mary's mother have a sister?
No, not that we know of. The Blessed Virgin Mary's mother was Saint Ann, who had Mary late in life, after many years of praying for a child. Mary WAS the Immaculate Conception, not to get confused with the common thought of doctrine stating Mary HAD an Immaculate Conception.
Who was the first speaker of Mary's prayer?
Catholic Answer
The first part of the "Hail Mary" was first spoken by the Archangel Gabriel in St. Luke's Gospel 1:28.
What was the Virgin Mary's vocation?
A vocation is what one is called to do with one's life. The Blessed Virgin received her vocation directly from God through the Archangel when he asked her if she would give birth to God. So her vocation was to be the Mother of God.
What is the biography of the Immaculate Conception?
The Immaculate Conception is one of the titles given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of God. Since she was destined to become the mother of Jesus Christ, Catholics and some other Christian religions believe that she was born without the stain of Original Sin. In other words, she was immaculately conceived in the womb of her mother St. Anne.
What can we learn from the Virgin Mary?
Her perfection. In Mary alone among all the merely human beings who have ever lived on earth, there is no gap between the real and the ideal, between what she was and what she should have been, between her will and God's will, between her actual life in time and God's eternal plan for her. That is why the Church applies to her, in the liturgy of her feast days, the scriptural words about Divine Wisdom, eternally in God's presence: because Mary's actual earthly life was no different from God's eternal plan for her. She alone perfectly realized God's perfect will; she is the greatest Artist's greatest masterpiece.
Her charity. Mary's holiness is not just negative (sinlessness) but positive (charity). Her freedom from all sin, both original and actual, is only a means to the greater end of her freedom -- for perfect charity. Goodness is not primarily purity but plenitude, as perfect gold is not primarily its lack of imperfections but its perfection. Purity is essential to gold only because gold is something worthy to be purified.
Her hope. Hope is faith directed to the future, to God's promises. That Mary is blessed because she has perfect faith and hope is the prophetic point of Elizabeth's words that prompted Mary's Magnificat (Lk 1:45): "Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to the her from the Lord."
The prayer Hail, Holy Queen also addresses Mary as "ourhope". Our hope of what? Of moral perfection, for one thing. If no merely human being were ever sinless, like Mary, we would think avoiding sin was impossible; we would limit sinlessness to divinity and despair of humanity. Mary gives humanity hope, a hope for perfection that will be fulfilled for each of us in heaven. Mary is a sign that God still has high hopes for us.
Her joy. Mary's moral perfection also shows us the secret of joy. the first five mysteries of the Rosary, which center around events in her life recorded in the Gospels, are the "joyful mysteries". The secret of her joy is her self-surrender. She is "too self-renounced for fears". Fear is perhaps the most common obstacle to joy because it is the most common obstacle to sanctity. Many sins stem from fear: thieves fear poverty, the violent fear weakness, liars fear truth, cowards fear suffering, adulterers fear loneliness. But Mary's "perfect love casts out fear" (1 Jn 4:18). Mary is so in love with Christ and with us that she forgets herself, and her fears, and so is liberated from fear into joy.
There is no reason to keep her secret secret!
Her faith. Faith also casts out fear, and Mary's faith is perfect because it is simple: her "faith is to submit freely to the word that has been heard" [from God], "because its truth is guaranteed by God, who is Truth itself ... The Virgin Mary is it most perfect embodiment" (CCC 144). "The Virgin Mary most perfectly embodies the obedience of faith. By faith Mary welcomes the tidings and promise brought by the angel Gabriel, believe that 'with God nothing will be impossible.' [Lk 1:37-38; cf. Gen 18:14]" (CCC 148). "'Nothing is more apt to confirm our faith and hope than holding it fixed in our minds that nothing is impossible with God. Once our reason has grasped the idea of God's almighty power, it will easily and without any hesitation admit everything that [the Creed] will afterwards propose for us to believe -- even if they be great and marvellous things, far above the ordinary laws of nature'" (Roman Catechism, 1, 2, 13) (CCC 274)
Her simplicity. It is hard to be as saintly as Mary only because it is hard to be a simple as Mary, simply to say (and live) Yes to God and nothing more, no qualification, no "ifs, ands, or buts". The secret of all the saints is in Mary's single word: her Fiat, her Yes, her Amen. The word islam, which means "submission", or "the peace that comes from submission to God", expresses that simplicity. "In the religion of Islam, by the way, Mary is also held in very high esteem as its exemplar and embodiment.)
from Peter J. Kreeft, Catholic Christianity, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2001
There is nothing more to be said about Mary as the perfect moral example. She is the perfect example precisely because there is nothing more to be said.
Why does the blessed mother have so many titles?
The Blessed Mother, or Mary, has numerous titles reflecting her diverse roles and attributes in the Christian faith. Each title represents a specific aspect of her life, virtues, and her relationship with Jesus and humanity, such as "Mother of God," "Our Lady of Sorrows," or "Queen of Heaven." These titles serve to honor her significance in salvation history and to provide different ways for the faithful to relate to her in prayer and devotion. Additionally, cultural and regional influences have contributed to the development of various titles, making her presence more accessible and meaningful to different communities.
