May
Month of Our Lady

1. Our Lady Queen of the May

  * In Bavaria, Germany, Solemnity of Patrona Bavariae
2. Our Lady of Oviedo, Spain (711)

   * Feast of Our Lady of Reparation

      *  1806: Birth of St. Catherine Labouré in Fainles-Moutiers, the messenger of the "Miraculous Medal,"

     (died December 31,  1876 in Paris).

3. Our Lady of Jasna Gora, Poland - Feast of Mary, Queen of Poland
      * Feast of Our Lady of Tsuwano, Japan
4. Our Lady the Helper, Normandy, France

           *  1595:  The "Colloquium Marianum" established in Ingolstadt, Baveria, by Father Jakob Rem, SJ, who   had founded the

              first small group sodality north of the Alps in 1574.

            *  1944:  Pius XII established the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

                    (celebrated the Saturday after the  Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus).

5. Our Lady Queen of the Apostles

        *  1917:  Benedict XV inserted the invocation "Queen of Peace" into the Litany of Loreto
6. Our Lady of Miracles in the Church of Our Lady of Peace, Rome (1483)
7. Our Lady of Haut, in Hainault (1267)

     * 1327:  Pope John XXII requested that the evening bell of the three Hail Marys (The Angelus) be rung in Rome.
8. Our Lady of Pompeii

      *Feasts of Mary, Queen of Saints

      * Feast of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces

      * Feast of Mary, Mother of Fair Love,

      * Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

      * 1891:  Consecration of the Church of Our Lady of Victories which would house the miraculous image

         of Our Lady of the Rosary, Pompei, Italy (image restored in 1875). 

        Shrine established by Bartolo Longo (1841-1926) and his wife. 

        Recitation of the "Supplication to the Queen of Victories" is recited universally on the first Sunday in October.

9. Our Lady of Loretto, Ancona, Italy
10. Dedication of Constantinople to Our Lady by Constantine the Great (4th C.)
        Our Lady of Saussaie, Paris (1305)
11. Our Lady of Aparecida, Patroness of Brazil  1717
       * Apparition of Our Lady to St. Phillip Neri (1594)

            *Marian Consecration of Constantinople (Byzantine
12. Our Lady of Power, Aubervillers, France

        *  Feast of Our Lady of the Abandoned, Manila, Philippines.

        Church of Our Lady of the Abandoned established in Marikina by the Augustinians in the 1770s.

13. Dedication of Our Lady of Martyrs, Rome (608)
     *   Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament
      *  Our Lady of Fatima

      * 1917:  First apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal.
           * 1946:  Coronation of the Image of Our Lady of Fatima.
           *  1965:  Pope Paul VI presents the Golden Rose to the shrine at Fatima.
           *  1967:  Pope Paul VI makes a pilgrimage to Fatima; publication of his apostolic Exhortation, Signum Magnum

                (The Great  Sign).  
          *   1982:  Pope John Paul II goes as a grateful pilgrim to Fatima.
            * 1991:  Pope John II goes as a grateful pilgrim to Fatima ten years after his assault.
           *  2000:  Beatification of the two visionary children, Jacinta (1910-1920) and Francisco (1908-1919) Marto in

           Fatima by Pope John Paul II.  Announcement of the publication of the so-called secret of Fatima by Cardinal Sodano.

14. Our Lady of Bavaria (1330)
15. Our Lady of France (1860)

           * Feast of Mary, Consolation of the Afflicted in Luxemburg.
      * Feast of Mother of God "de la Luz" (light), Leon, Mexico
      * Feast of Our Blessed Mother of Mies (Maronite)
      * Feast of Our Lady of the Wheat (Syrian
16. Apparition of Our Lady to St. Catherine of Alexandria (4th C.)

          * Memorial, Mary, Mother of God (Coptic)
      * Feast of Dabra Metqa, an apparition of Mary in Egypt (Ethiopian)
17. Our Lady of Tears, Spoletto, Italy (1494)

      * Feast of Our Lady of the Rediscovery of Christians in Japan
18. Dedication of Our Lady of Bonport Abbey, Diocese of Evreux (1190)
19. Our Lady of Flines, Douay (1279)
20. Dedication of the Church of La Ferté, Burgundy, in honor of Our Lady (1113)
21. Our Lady of Vladmir, Russia (1115)
        Our Lady of Sweat, Salerno, Italy (1611)
22. Our Lady of Monte Vergine, near Naples, Italy (1119)
23. Our Lady of Miracles of Brescia, Italy (1478)

      * Feast of Our Lady of Cuzco, Peru
24. Our Lady Help of Christians, Europe (16th C.)

      * Feast of Mary of the Way,

      *  Feast of Our Lady of Beize, Queen of Slovania.
25. Our Lady of the New Jerusalem (530)

           Feast of Our Lady of Consolation, Ciudad Real, Spain
26. Our Lady of Caravaggio, Italy (1432)
27. Our Lady of Naples, Italy (533)

           1883:  Founding of the Universal Congregation of the Holy House (of Loreto).

28. Feast of the Relics of Our Lady, Venice, Italy
29. Our Lady of Ardents, Arras, France (1095)
30. Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Mexico (1966)
31. Feast of the Visitation
       * Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces
       * Our Lady of All Nations

      *  Pope Pius XII in his encyclical, "Ad Coeli Reginam" of October 11, 1954, asked that the consecration to the

       Immaculate Heart of Mary be renewed yearly on this date. 

      *  Feast of Mary, Queen of All Saints
      *  Feast of Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart

*Last Saturday of the Month of May - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

             Other:

• First Sunday in May, Feast of Our Lady of the Good Shepherd of Harissa, Lebanon

• Saturday before the 2nd Sunday in May, Feast of Our Lady "de los Desamparados," (the abandoned), Valencia, Spain

• Saturday before the 3rd Sunday in May, Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary

• Saturday before the 4th Sunday in May, Feast of Our Lady of Lujan

• Saturday after the Octave of Ascension, Feast of Mary, Queen of Apostles

• During the time of Pentecost, Memorial of Mary in the Upper Room (Last Supper)

• On Pentecost Sunday, Patronage of Rocio, Huelva, Spain

• On Pentecost Monday, Mary, Mother of the Church, Poland and Croatia

• Feast of Our Lady of Le Foy, Belgium

• Pope John Paul II raised the liturgical commemoration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from an optional to an obligatory memorial in the General Roman Calendar.

  The celebration falls on the day (always a Saturday) after the feast of the Sacred Heart, which is the Friday after the Corpus Christi.  The placement of the commemoration indicates the connection