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Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...
The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-73961-7. (published in the United States as "The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph" at Google Books) Atkins, Thomas B. (1869). "Papers Relating to the Acadian French, 1714-1755". Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia ...
Coat of arms of the Marian Fathers. Also known as the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, this is a community of more than 500 Roman Catholic priests and brothers in 19 countries on 6 continents.
During the apparitions, Mary appeared in a white robe with rays of blue and a crown of light. In the final apparitions, the Virgin Mary revealed a Heart of Gold, from which the title of the Virgin of the Golden Heart was given to her. Mary told the children she was the Immaculate Conception, the Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. Mary asked ...
The Marian Apparitions at Conyers, in the U.S. state of Georgia, are a series of reported visions of the Virgin Mary experienced by Nancy Fowler. [1] These apparitions gained significant attention from both the Roman Catholic community and the general public from the late 1980s through the 1990s. [2]
The Blessed Virgin Mary has accompanied the history of the Cuban people, sustaining the hope which preserves people's dignity in the most difficult situations and championing the promotion of all that gives dignity to the human person. The growing devotion to the Virgin is a visible testimony of her presence in the soul of the Cuban people ….
Our Lady of Mercy - From the Generalate of the Mercedarian Order.. The Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives (Latin: Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum, abbreviated O. de M.), also known as the Mercedarians, is a Catholic mendicant order established in 1218 by Peter Nolasco in the city of Barcelona, at that time the ...
Our Lady of Graces, the title of the Marian apparition Site of the apparitions: Sítio da Guarda, Cimbres, Pesqueira.08.3626°S 036.8116°W. Cimbres Marian apparition is a series of visions of the Virgin Mary [1] that occurred in 1936 and 1937 in Northeastern Brazil, in the Pernambuco state municipality of Pesqueira, district of Cimbres.