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The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque – Book Review

This book could be described as a love affair. A love affair, filled with passion, intimacy, sincerity, devotion and strength. For the 142 letters contained within this volume have come from the pen of someone truly in love – yet someone who, through that state of being ‘in love’, shares that love with each person [...]

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DVD Review: The 13th Day

  There is a truly staggering  - and relatively very recent – phenomenon within the history of the Church, which it seems to me is never given sufficient attention. It is Fatima. How I ask myself, can so many people ignore such an astonishingly well-documented miracle as that performed by Our Lady at Fatima – [...]

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On the Immeasurable Softness of Her Immaculate Heart

  Dear Reader, some very personal notes here … Regular readers will readily see that in recent weeks, this website has become very Marian indeed … And this Marian shift stems from a crisis, both personal and global. For several weeks ago, looking out at the global crisis, something broke down in me. Looking out [...]

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Pellevoisin and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart – Part V: After the Apparitions …

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we resume with the fifth part of our series on the reported Marian Apparitions of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These are taken from a 1904 book by Bernard St John – who, in fact, personally knew Estelle Faguette, the visionary at Pellevoisin. This latest [...]

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Pellevoisin and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart – Part IV: The Final Apparitions

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we resume with the fourth part of our series on the reported Apparitions of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These are taken from a 1904 book by Bernard St John – who, in fact, personally knew Estelle Faguette, the visionary at Pellevoisin. We also refer [...]

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Mélanie Calvat and Our Lady of La Salette Part IV – The Fate of Maximin Giraud

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: We continue with the fourth part in our series of La Salette. Here and in the following part, we will continue with extracts from Bernard St John’s book (See our first part here, for more about this). These next extracts tell of the final years of Maximin [...]

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Pellevoisin and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart – Part III: The Scapular of the Heart of Jesus

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we resume with the third part of our series on the reported Apparitions of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These are taken from a 1904 book by Bernard St John – who, in fact, personally knew Estelle Faguette, the visionary at Pellevoisin. For more about [...]

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Pellevoisin and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart – Part II: “I am All Merciful”

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we resume with the second part of our series on the reported Apparitions of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These are taken from a 1904 book by Bernard St John – who, in fact, personally knew Estelle Faguette, the visionary at Pellevoisin. For more about [...]

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The Story of Bernadette and Lourdes – Part X: The Later Years

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the tenth part and final of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. In this tenth part, we conclude our series with some final [...]

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Pellevoisin and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart – Part I: The First Apparitions

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: In Nineteenth Century France, four great Apparitions of Our Lady occurred – in 1830 at the Rue du Bac in Paris, in 1846 at La Salette, in 1858 at Lourdes and in 1871 at Pontmain. All four of these have received full approval from the Catholic Church [...]

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The Story of Bernadette and Lourdes – Part IX: After the Apparitions

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the ninth part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a [...]

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The Story of Saint Bernadette and Lourdes – Part VIII: The Last Apparition

by Bernard St John Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the eighth part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine book [...]

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The Story of Saint Bernadette and Lourdes – Part VII: The Miracle of the Lighted Candle

By Bernard St John Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the seventh part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine book [...]

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The Story of Saint Bernadette and Lourdes – Part VI: She Said in a Voice that Trembled a Little: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”

 By Bernard St John   Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the sixth part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine [...]

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The Story of Saint Bernadette and Lourdes – Part V: The Miracles of Cures and Healing Begin …

From Bernard St John   Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the fifth part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine [...]

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The Story of Saint Bernadette and Lourdes – Part IV: “I Wish People to Come Here in Procession.”

By Bernard St John   Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the fourth part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine [...]

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The Story of Saint Bernadette and Lourdes – Part III: “Tell the Priests that a Chapel Must be Built …”

By Bernard St John Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the third part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine [...]

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Pontmain and Our Lady of Hope Part III – A Crucifix the Colour of Arterial Blood …

By Bernard St John   Introductory Remarks: We continue serialising this highly detailed, well-researched narrative of the Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain. This is taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. Please see the first part here – not simply for the beginning of the account, [...]

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Pontmain and Our Lady of Hope Part II – The Blessed Virgin Brings a Message to Catholic France

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: We continue serialising this highly detailed, well-researched narrative of the Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain. This is taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. Please see the first part here – not simply for the beginning of the [...]

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Pontmain and Our Lady of Hope Part I – The Blessed Virgin Appears in the Night Sky

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: We begin serialising this highly detailed, well-researched narrative of the Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain. This is taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. But first, let us note that this is the last and least known of [...]

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