Commemorations of Mary in March
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Commemorations of Mary in March
3/11858: Twelfth apparition of Mary in Lourdes
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1858: Thirteenth apparition of Mary in Lourdes. She expressed the wish that people come in procession to the grotto.
1917: Due to the visions of the farmer, Eudokia Andranova, in Potschinki near Moscow, discovery of the miraculous image of the Dershawnaja Kolomenskoja was honored in Russia from then on.
1933: Eighth and final apparition of Mary in Banneux, Belgium. She said to Mariette Becor, "I am the mother of the Savior, the Mother of God. Pray much!"
1939: Pius XII, called "The Marian Pope," succeeded Pius XI.
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1858: Fourteenth apparition of Mary in Lourdes. She asked that a chapel be built.
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1858: Fifteenth apparition of Mary in Lourdes.
3/10
1476: Approval of the first rosary brotherhood in Germany.
3/11
1910: Birth of the child visionary, Jacinta Marto of Fatima.
3/12
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spain)
Feast of Spain's Our Lady of Guadalupe in Estremadura.
3/13
1980: The invocation, "Mother of the Church," could be inserted into the Litany of Loreto with the agreement of diocesan bishops.
3/14
Feast of Our Lady of Kostroma or Fedor, Russia
3/17
Feast of Our Lady of Blaj, Rumania
3/18
Feast of Our Lady of Ajaccio, Corsica
3/19
Feast of St. Joseph, Husband of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, honored as patron of the universal Church and patron of the dying.
3/20
Feast of St. Nicholas of Flue (1417-1487) of Switzerland, to whom the Blessed Mother appeared several times.
3/21
Feast of Our Lady of Nowy Swierjan, Russia
3/22
1907: Birth of Lucia, the eldest child visionary of Fatima.
1974: Pope Paul VI published Marialis Cultus, an Apostolic Exhortation on the right ordering of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
3/24
1858: Sixteenth apparition of Mary in Lourdes. She stated, "I am the Immaculate Conception."
1920: Pope Benedict XV declared Our Lady to be the "principal patroness of all aviators."
3/25
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
Patronal Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, England
Our Lady of the Don, Russia.
1981: Promulgation of the Rite for Crowning an Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It contained a new litany in honor of Mary's Queenship.
3/26
Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel, Byzantine
3/31
Feast of the Iviron ("Iberian," i.e., Georgian) image of the Theotokos
Friday after Easter
Feast of Zoothohos Piyi [Ζωοδόχος Πηγή], Life-giving Fount