The event is also an opportunity to reappropriate the true message of the Sacred Heart and to rectify the false representations with which it has been saddled, according to Father Kern. Roman Basilica ...

THOUSANDS of pilgrims visit Paray le Monial every year. When I was a grade school student at St. Scholastica’s College Manila, one of the many religious practices my parents taught me was the devotion ...

Dec. 27, 2023, was the 350th anniversary of the first of the apparitions of the Lord Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque at the Visitation Convent in Paray-le-Monial. These apparitions lasted for 17 ...

This scene from the film "Sacré Coeur," depicts St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus was showing his heart between 1673 and 1675 in Paray-le-Monial, in the French region of Burgundy. The French ...

LYON, France — Armed robbers snatched jewels worth millions from a work by famed Parisian goldsmith Joseph Chaumet and classed a national treasure in a brazen heist at a French museum.

I knew from the start that we were in good company. Our visit to Paray-le-Monial, one of nine shrine towns in France, began at 25 Avenue Jean-Paul II. Like the namesake of the street, our group — some ...

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