Our Lady of Vailankanni is also known as Our Lady of Good Health Feast Day: September 8th Devotion to Our Lady of Good Health of Vailankanni...

An ancient pilgrimage center in the heart of Bavaria; its original shrine has never been destroyed. One of the richest sanctuaries in the wo...

I found an excellent online geography reference site this week: Encyclopedia of the Nations . The Encyclopedia of the Nations is a complet...

Feast Day: February 11th World famous shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France. In 1858, the Bles...

Below is a list of the 100 or so books most often marked as "unread" on Library Thing. How many of them have you read? (HT: Jim) ...

Feast Day: September 24th Picture: Roman Miscellany In 1061, when St.Edward the Confessor was still King of England, a special link was for...

While all in America were watching the the Chicago riots at the Democratic Convention, or viewing live war zone broadcasts from Vietnam or w...

Feast Day: January 15th The Dominican Republic, where the evangelization of the New World began, is under the protection of the Virgin unde...

Henry II arrived yesterday and is now sleeping happily in his new snug little home under the stairs. He ran around first swallowing a week...

They are not directly related to the "round the world" theme, but here are two resources that encourage people to spend every day ...

I mentioned that the hotel we stayed at last weekend was a historian's paradise. As is the internet, which allowed me to pad out the in...

Feast Day: August 2nd A shrine of Our Lady of the Angels in Costa Rica, near the foot of Mount Irazú. In 1635 a young Negro girl found a sm...

There is plenty of information available in English for some of the images of Our Lady I have chosen, for others not so much. Our Lady of Ch...

Tevye and I have been away ... two days and one night on our own! Star is at Brownie camp, Angel stayed over with her Grandma, and K-next-do...

Feast Day: May 24th (Picture: The Mary Page ) A Marian sanctuary in the village of Tong Lu near Peiping. In 1900 the village was attacked b...

Which sci-fi character am I? Yoda! A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a ch...

Feast Day: January 15th The shrine of Our Lady of the Poor, near the city of Liège in the Flemish village of Banneux. Devotion to Mary beg...

Feast Day: September 13th The most famous place of pilgrimage to Mary in Central Europe, high in the Austrian Alps. Its origins go back to 1...

Feast Day: May 8th Argentine shrine, forty miles west of Buenos Aires. Its main object of devotion is a small doll-like statue of the Bles...

Feast Day: April 30th Our Lady of Africa: Ancient shrine at Algiers, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. It was originally a small statu...