Commemorations of Mary in April
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Commemorations of Mary in April
4/1
Feast of Our Lady of Tenderness, Smolensk, Russia
4/2
Feast of Our Lady of the Way, Leon, Spain
4/4
1919: Death of Francisco Marto, child visionary of Fatima.
4/5
1604: Apparition of the Mother Thrice Admirable to Father Jakob Rem in Ingolstadt, Germany
1953: Seoul, Korea, the pilgrim Madonna statue of Fatima was crowned as Korea's Queen of Peace.
4/7
1858: Seventeenth apparition of Mary in Lourdes (Miracle of the Candles).
4/12
Feast of Our Lady of Riazan, Russia.
4/14
Feast of Our Lady of Mercy
4/15
Feast of Our Lady of Kiew, Ukraine
4/16
1879: Death of St. Bernadette Soubirous in Nevers.
4/20
Feast of the Sorrowful Mother, Quito, Ecuador
4/22
1842: Discovery of Grignion de Monfort's text, "Total Consecration to Mary."
4/26
Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel. The miraculous image was found in Genazzano near Rome. Pope Leo XIII added this invocation to the Litany of Loreto.
4/27
Feast of Our Lady of Montserrat, Spain
Feast of Our Lady of Vilnius, Lithuania
Feast St. Peter Canisius SJ (1521-1597), doctor of the church, author of the book, The Incomparable Virgin and Mother of God, Mary (Die unvergleichliche Jungfrau und Gottesmutter Maria)
4/28
Memorial of Our Lady of Terremoto, Ecuador
Feast St. Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716), one of the most significant devotees of Mary in modern times.
4/30
Feast of Our Lady of Africa, Algeria
Other
Saturday of the Second Sunday after Easter: Feast of Our Lady del Valle, Catamarca, Argentina