The Litany of the Blessed Virgin is also known as the Litany of Loreto ... the Holy Father wrote," May the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, be also mother of the 'family church'. Through her ...

The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated each year on the eighth of September ... The Syro-Sicilian Pope St. Sergius I, who reigned from 687-701, prescribed a litany and ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

A child of the poor gathered his companions around him and led them to a statue of Mary, before which a lamp ... There, these fresh young voices sang the Litany of our Lady. The next day, the ...