Sunday, March 08, 2026

Madonna di Costantinopoli (Marittima di Diso, Lecce, Apulia, Italy)

Madonna di Costantinopoli (Marittima di Diso, Lecce, Apulia, Italy) , 1589 - First Sunday of March

The story goes that on three summer nights in 1589, while walking along his roof terrace, Don Domenico Coluccia, parish priest of Marittima, saw an unusual light like a torch in the woods below. To verify the sight, the pastor then invited some villa...

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Nossa Senhora das Lágrimas (Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil)

Nossa Senhora das Lágrimas (Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil) , 1928 - March 8

In 1928, Amália Aguirre was one of the founding members of the Missionaries of Jesus Crucified, taking the name Sister Amália of the Scourged Jesus, and gaining a bit of fame when she developed stigmata, which later healed. The following year, knee...

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