Commemorations of Mary in June

6/1

1642: The miraculous image of Kevelaer was enthroned.

6/2

553: The fifth general Council of Constantinople reconfirmed the correctness of the expression, Birth Giver of God (Mother of God).

6/4

1979: Pope John Paul II visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland

6/6

1840: Death of Father Marcellin Champagnat in a hermitage near St. Chamond, founder of the Marist Brothers and devoted to Mary. He was born May 20, 1789, in Marlhes, Southern France.

1937: Dedication of the restored church at the ancient pilgrimage place of Walsingham, England, founded originally in 1061, destroyed 1538

6/8

1856 At Notre Dame du Puy, crowning of the new (third) Miraculous Image of this fifth century place of pilgrimage.

6/9

Particular: Feast of Mary, Mother of Grace

6/10

Portugal: Feast of Guardian Angels celebrated with a children's pilgrimage to Fatima

1946: Death of Servant of God Father Eustachius Kugler, OH, born January 15, 1867, in Nittenau/Opf in Regensburg, Germany. He was provincial of the Brothers of Mercy in Bavaria and fostered devotion to Our Lady of Fatima.

6/11

Feast of the Axion esti or Mary's apparition at the proclamation of the Akathistos Hymn (Byzantine)

1908: Birth of Francisco Marto, one of the seer children of Fatima

1899: Leo XIII dedicated the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who is "one" with the heart of Mary, so that both hearts were to be honored together.

6/12

1924: At Zikawei near Shanghai, China with Mongolia and Manchuria dedicated themselves to the "Queen of China." Marian devotion began in the thirteenth century associated with an image of the "Ma-li-ya" = "Our Good Mother" and was most pronounced from the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries. First dedication in 1576. Oldest shrine, Our Lady of Pen-hoa in Macao in 1662.

6/13

1917: Second Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. Mary said to the children, "The Lord wishes to establish the devotion to the Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who practice it. God will honor these souls."

6/14

1925: Beatification of Bernadette Soubirous, the seer from Lourdes.

6/15

Feast of All Churches in the Holy Land (Ethiopian)

6/21

Feast of Mary's Visitation (Coptic)

6/22

431: Proclamation of the dogma of the divine Motherhood of Mary (Mother of God) at the Council of Ephesus.

1883: Apparition of Mary in Ta 'Pinu, Gozo, Malta

6/24

Feast of the Birth of John the Baptizer who was filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb through Mary's intercession.

6/26

Feast of the Blessed Mother of Tichwin, Russia

2000: Publication of the so-called 'third secret of Fatima' by the prefect of the Congregation of the Faith at the request of Pope John Paul II.

6/27

Particular: Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Image came to Rome March 7, 1499; April 26, 1886, given to the church of the Redemptorists in Rome.

Patronage of Our Lady of Colombo, Sri Lanka