In 1942, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Fatima, Pope Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That same year, he assigned the feast day to August 22, the octave of the ...

Memorial of Mary of the Snows. A Roman patrician, his wife, and Pope Liberius sought a place to build a church in honor of Mary. On August 5, snow fell on the ... Consecration of Holland and Belgium ...

When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

He died on August 19, 1680 and was canonized by ... and the establishment of a society dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at the Church of Our Lady of Victories in Paris in 1836, that ...