About Our Lady

The Origin of the Regina Coeli Prayer

Details: Created on Tuesday, 09 April 2013 17:49; Written by Andrea F. Phillips

According to the Golden Legend, a thirteenth century work on the lives of the Saints, Pope St. Gregory the Great in the 6th century was leading a procession asking for relief from a pestilence...

Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith

Details: Created on Friday, 29 March 2013 19:12; Written by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

While the heavy stones of the tomb conceal the body of Savior from the gaze of everyone, the faith vacillates in the few who remained faithful to Our Lord. But there is a light that does not burn out, nor does it flicker, and it alone burns fully in this universal darkness. It is Our Lady…

The Marvelous World of Our Lady’s Flowers

Details: Created on Thursday, 14 February 2013 15:40; Written by John Horvat II

While modern men look for happiness in instant gratification, there was once a time in Christendom when men believed happiness came from a true understanding of the order of the universe...

Our Lady of Joy

Details: Created on Tuesday, 29 January 2013 14:44; Written by TFP.org

In 1134 three Knights of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem who were prisoners of the Muslims in Egypt, miraculously found or received in their prison, a statue of Our Lady, which they named Our Lady of Joy, or Notre Dame de Liesse.

Our Lady of Guadalupe: She Who Smashes the Serpent

Details: Created on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:59; Written by Cesar Franco

Pope Pius XII gave Our Lady of Guadalupe the title of “Empress of the Americas” in 1945. Since December 12 is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, this is a propitious moment to recall how she reigns over our nation from Heaven.

Devotion to the Holy Rosary: Powerful “Weapon” of the Faith

Details: Created on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:16; Written by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

As we know, one great merit of the devotion to the Rosary is that it was revealed by Our Lady to Saint Dominic as a means to revive the Faith in regions ravaged by the Albigensian heresy.

The Queenship of Mary

Details: Created on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:00; Written by The American TFP

Pope Pius XII in the Papal Encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam proposed the traditional doctrine on the Queenship of Mary and established this feast for the Universal Church.

Our Lady Help of Christians, Celebrates Pope’s Liberation From Prison

Details: Created on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:22; Written by Cesar Franco

This commemoration was introduced in the liturgical calendar by decree of Pope Pius VII on September 16, 1815, in thanksgiving for his happy return to Rome after a long and painful captivity in Savona and France due to Napoleon’s tyrannical power.

The Story of Our Lady of Genazzano

Details: Created on Monday, 23 April 2012 00:00; Written by TFP.org

A few miles from the city of Rome, lies Genazzano — a city rich in history and blessed with the presence of a miraculous painting of the Blessed Virgin that has an amazing story...

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Spain

Details: Created on Friday, 30 December 2011 14:00; Written by Richard Segerstrom

This statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Extremadura region of western Spain, is not to be confused with the Tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac, Mexico. The statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which was carved by Saint Luke the Evangelist, was given to Saint Leander, Bishop of Seville, by Pope Saint Gregory I in gratitude to Saint Leander for converting the Visigothic kings, Saint Hermengild and Recared.

American Tradition, Family, Property: Fighting the Counter-Revolution