Praying for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and being devoted ... in the New World in the early 1500s—and, more recently, in Africa as Christianity has spread there. Sister Marzena Michalczyck ...

The Virgin Mary, venerated there, is represented by a statue in precious ... In this Marian Year let us pray that all of Africa, that continent of hope, may be ever more open to the light and love of ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...