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In the Footsteps of Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin
April 13-19,1997 Issue 
ASSISI, THAT MEDIEVAL Umbrian hill town of crenelated walls, red tile roofs, narrow cobblestone streets and soaring church domes, can actually lay claim to a second St. Francis.
Francis Possenti was born there on March 1, 1838, 756 years after his namesake, and is better known today by the name he... READ MORE
For the Emerald Isle, Long Overdue Homecomings
BY John McCormack
April 06, 1997 Issue
FOR CENTURIES, IRELAND has lost sons and daughters to America. Two of the main reasons for this: eight centuries of English domination and the Great Hunger of the 1840s. Yet even after the famine was over and Ireland had won her freedom from England, the island nation was not able to support all... READ MORE
Finding ëPax et Bonumí in Assisi
BY Joan Lewis
March 23-29, 1997 Issue
”O holy town of Assisi, you are known to the whole world for the one fact of having given birth to the Little Poor One, your Saint, so seraphic in his love. May you understand this privilege, and offer to all people the spectacle of such a faithfulness to Christian tradition that it will be to your... READ MORE
Where Mary Came to Comfort the Irish
BY John Mccormack
March 16-22, 1997 Issue
WHY DID Mary come at this particular time in history and why did she choose this particular place? These were my questions as I drove up Ireland's N17, the main highway from Galway to Knock. Why did Our Lady of Knock come to a small, unremarkable town in the West of Ireland on Aug. 21, 1879?
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The New Location Will Be a Dream Come True
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
The Marian Museum which is moving to Fatima will feel right at home.
The museum's move from its current home in New York to Portugal will give its collection of Marian images and statues far greater exposure to pilgrims from around the world.
When the idea of assembling the collection first came to... READ MORE
Marian Museum is Fatima-Bound
BY Joseph Pronechen Devoted founder of a Brooklyn facility has a rendezvous in Portugal
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
What can I do?” James Williamson asked himself while on pilgrimage over 35 years ago in Pontevedra, Spain.
He stood near the spot where Jesus had appeared in 1925 to Sister Lucia, the Fatima visionary, and asked the young postulant what was being done to promote devotion to his Mother.
Williamson's... READ MORE
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