St. Pius X sent a copy of the icon to the Empress of Ethiopia and granted an indulgence of 100 days to anyone who repeated the phrase: “Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for us.” Pope Benedict XV ...

Catholic devotees light candles and solemnly pray as they welcome the new year on the first Wednesday of the month at the ...

499 The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity ... Christ's birth "did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity but ...