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5 days ago · As the Catholic Church calls to mind the poverty-stricken during Poverty Awareness Month, it is fitting to tell the story of the incomprehensible — but very true — events that unfolded when Our Lady visited a poor girl named Mariette Beco on a moonless winter night in 1933.
Jan 15, 2024 · That’s what Mary did for Mariette—and that’s what Fr. Al is still accomplishing today through the Sisters of Mary. “People say that St. Vincent de Paul was the great apostle of charity and that Fr. Al Schwartz based his entire missionary life on his,” Monsignor James Golasinski said.
Jan 15, 2024 · A few nights later, Mary introduced herself to Mariette as “The Virgin of the Poor,” the first time in the history of apparitions that she had identified herself with those living in...
From January 15 to March 2, 1933, the Virgin Mary appeared eight times to an 11-year-old girl called Mariette Béco, in Banneux, Belgium. Mariette Béco was born on March 25, 1921, the oldest child of a modest and non-practicing Catholic family of seven children.
According to Mariette, she first saw the Blessed Virgin on the evening of Sunday 15 January 1933, as she was looking out the kitchen window. A woman in white stood in the garden of their house and called to her to come out with a wave of her hand.
Jan 22, 2020 · To Mariette, she said, “I Am the Virgin of the Poor.” It’s a fitting title, because the Beco family was poor, and now Mary claimed prominence in the life of this family. Most biblical scholars agree that the Holy Family was poor, evidenced by the sacrifice they offered in the temple on the occasion of Jesus’ Presentation.
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Feb 20, 2020 · The Virgin Mary begins appearing to Mariette Beco. Then on February 11, Our Lady appeared to Mariette and guided her to the spring again. “ I come to relieve the suffering .”
