Life of Mary
This date celebrates the birth of Mary.
What is September 8?
Mother Mary appeared to St. Simon Stock and gave him the Brown Scapular
What is Our Lady of Mount Carmel? (feast: July 16)
The first church dedicated in Rome to honour the title of Mary as Mother of God
What is the Basilica of St. Mary Major? (feast: August 5)
These two months are linked with special devotion to Mother Mary.
What are May and October?
This angel visited Mary and greeted her with these words
Who is Gabriel and what is "Hail full of grace"?
This feast of Mary is linked with one of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary but is NOT the Assumption.
What is the Queenship of Mary? (feast: Aug 22)
This feast is associated with the so-called "Miracle of the Dancing Sun"
What is Our Lady of Fatima? (feast: May 13)
This title of Mary celebrates her protection of Catholics in the Gulf and remembers the first statue of Mary in Kuwait.
What is Our Lady of Arabia? (feast: Saturday after Baptism of the Lord)
This number represents the sorrows of Mary traditionally commemorated by the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (Sep 15).
What is SEVEN?
Jesus entrustred Mary to this person from the Cross
Who is John/Beloved Disciple?
This feast celebrates a dogma about the end of Mary’s earthly life and was formally defined by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
What is the Assumption? (feast: August 15)
Appearance of Mary to 3 children in 1917, asking them to pray the rosary and do penance for peace.
What is our Lady of Fatima? (feast: Mary 13)
Patroness of aviators as this feast commemorates the transferal of the Holy House of Nazareth to this place in Italy.
What is Our Lady of Loreto? (feast: December 10)
This feast honours of a form of Marian prayer which ensured the victory of the Christian navies over the Turks at Lepanto
What is Our Lady of the Rosary? (Oct 7)
The feast of the Visitation commemorates the visit of Jesus and Mary to these two people (hint: one wasn’t yet born)
Who were St. Elizabeth and St. John the Baptist?
An incident in the life of Mary not found in the Bible celebrating her complete dedication to God from an early age.
What is the Presentation of Mary? (Feast: Nov 21)
This feast honours the appearance of Mary as an Aztec princess to Juan Diego and the leaving of a miraculous image on his cloak.
What is Our Lady of Guadalupe? (feast: December 8)
The oldest formal title of Mary declared at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, meant to protect the idea of the divinity of Jesus.
What is Mary, Mother of God? (feast: Jan 1)
This feast commemorates the powerful protection obtained by calling on Mary. Begun after the victory over the Turks at Vienna.
What is the Holy Name of Mary?
The Hail Mary is made up from words said at these two feasts.
What is the Annunciation (Hail full of grace, the Lord is with you) and the Visitation (Blessed are you among women and blessed int he fruit of your womb)
This feast celebrates the sinlessness of Mary from the very first moment and was declared a dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854.
What is the Immaculate Conception ? (feast: December 8)
Appearance of Mary to Bernadette Soubirous, declaring herself to be the Immaculate Conception. Associated with a healing spring of water.
What is Our Lady of Lourdes? (feast: February 11)
This feast falls near Pentecost and is a title of Mary proclaimed by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and made a feast for the whole Church by Pope Francis
What is Mary, Mother of the Church?
This feast commemorates the interior life of Mary, especially her love for God. Associated with the devotion of “Five Saturdays” (Communion, Confession, Rosary for 5 Saturdays)
What is the Immaculate Heart of Mary (feast: Saturday after Sacred Heart)?
Mary met these two people when she took Jesus to present him to God in the Temple (Luke 2)
Who are Simeon and Anna?