MARCH

1.
Establishment of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, by Sixtus IV, in the year 1476, and a grant of indulgences to those who attend the offices of the church or Mass.—(T. iv. Conciliornm.)

2.
Our Lady of Apparitions, at Madrid, so called because in the year 1499, the Blessed Virgin appeared during a whole week to a young woman named Yves, and ordered her to build a church in her honor, on the spot where she should find a cross planted to Our Lady.—(Life of Blessed Jane.)

3.
Our Lady of Longport, in Valois. This abbey, of the Cistercian order, was founded in the year 1131, by Josselin, Bishop of Soissons.—(Gallia Christiana, t. iv.)

4.
Our Lady de la Garde, in Arragon, so called for having preserved from death a child who had fallen into a well, in the year 1221.—(Bzovinus, year 1221.)

5.
Our Lady of Good Succor, at Nancy, in Lorraine. This Madonna, it is believed, enabled Rene, Duke of Lorraine, to gain a victory over Charles the Bold, the last Duke of Burgundy.—(Triple Couronne, n. 55.)

6.
Our Lady of Nazareth, at Black Rock, in Portugal. This image was honored at Nazareth in the time of the apostles, if we may believe a writing which was found, by a hunter, attached to this image, in the year 1150.—(Triple Couronne, n. 13.)

7.
Our Lady of the Star, at Villa Viciosa, in Portugal, so called from a star, which a shepherd saw shining where the church is built.—(Triple Conronne, n. 17.) 

8.
Our Lady of Virtues, at Lisbon, in Portugal— (Antonius Vasconcellius in Descriptione regni Lusitaniae, c. 7, § 5.)

9.
Foundation of Savigny, in the diocese of Avranches, in Normandy, in honor of the Blessed Virgin, about the year 1112, by the blessed Vitalis, hermit, who was its first abbot.—(Gallia Christi, t. iv.)

10.
Our Lady of the Vine, near Viterbo, in Tuscany, a fine church, occupied at present by Dominicans.—(Bzovius, ad ann., 1487.)

11.
Our Lady of the Forests, at Porto, in Portugal. This image was found again in a forest, where it had been hidden by Queen Matilda, wife of Alphonsus I.—(Joannes Barrius, lib. de Rebus Interamnensibus, c. 12.)

12.
Our Lady of Miracles, in the cloister of St. Maur des Fosses, near Paris. It is said that this image was found made when the sculptor, named, Rumold, was about to begin it.—(Du Breuil, Theatre des Antiquites, lib. iv.)

13.
Our Lady of the Empress, at Rome. A tradition records that this image spoke to St. Gregory the Great, in the year 593.—(Antonius Yepez, ad ann. 84, divi Benedicti.)

14.
Our Lady de la Breche, at Chartres, where a procession takes place every year, in thanksgiving for Our Lady's having delivered the city, when besieged by heretics, in the year 1568. It was during this siege that not a cannon or musket ball fired by the besiegers at the image of Our Lady, placed. upon the Drouaise gate, struck it, although the marks of them are still seen two or three inches from it.—(Sebastien Rouillard, Parthenie, o. 3.)

15.
In the year 911, the city of Chartres was miraculously delivered from the siege laid to it by Rollo or Raoul, Duke of the Normans; for as he was on the point of taking the city, Gaucelin, the forty-seventh Bishop of Chartres, mounted on the top of the ramparts, holding a relic of Our Lady as an ensign, "which struck such terror in the enemy's camp, that all retreated in disorder ; in memory of this fact, the meadows of the Drouaise gate are called, to this day, the meadows of the Repulsed (des Recules) —(Sebastien Rouillard, Parthenie, c. 7, n. 5.)

16.
Our Lady of the Fountain, at Constantinople, built by the Emperor Leo, in. the year 460, in thanksgiving for the apparition of the Blessed Virgin to him, near a spring, to which he was charitable leading a blind man, when he was merely a common soldier, and the fact that she foretold that he would be emperor.—Nicephorus, lib. xv., c. 15.)

17.
In the year 1095, under Pope Urban II., a council was held at Clermont, in Auvergne, at which the Office of Our Lady was instituted.—(Council of Clermont.) Foundation of the Abbey of Baumont-les-Toure, by Ingestrude, in the year 600.— (Gallia Christiana, t. iv.)

18.
In the year 1686, Our Lady of Loretto, wag erected into a cathedral by Sixtus V.,  having been previously a collegiate church.—(Tursellini, Historia Lauretana, v. 10.)

19.
The Beautiful Lady, at Nogent-Sur-Seine. It is affirmed, that it is impossible to remove this celebrated picture from its little chapel, which is only four or five feet square.—(Ex monumentis Novigentenis.)

20.
Our Lady of Calevoirt, at Uckelen, near Bussels. This image began to work miracles in the year 1454, which induced the erection of a magnificent chapel in honor of Our Blessed Lady, in the year 1623. The Infanta of Spain, Isabella Clara Eugenia, devoutly visited it the same year.—(Aub. Miraeus, in Annalis Belgicis.)

21.
Our Lady of Bruges, in Flanders, where a lock of the Blessed Virgin's hair is exhibited, given by a Syrian bishop, named Moses.—(Hugo Farcitus, lib. i., Miracnl. B. Virg.)

22.
On Palm Sunday, in the year 1098, St. Robert, Abbot of Moleme, retired with twenty-one of his monks to the diocese of Chalons-sur-Saone, where he built, in honor of Our Lady, the celebrated monastery of Citeaux, the head house of the order. —(Arnold Vionus, lib. L; Ligni vitae c. 47.) 

23.
Our Lady of Victory. This image bears that name, because the French having fortunately taken it from the hands of the Greeks, during a sanguinary engagement with them near Constantinople, in the year 1204, they gained by means of it a complete victory.—(Spondanus, Annals ann. 1204.)

24.
Eve of the Annunciation of Our Lady, instituted by Gregory II. On this day, Our Lady kept the Passover at Jerusalem, in the year of Our Lord 49. —(Balingham, Metaphrastes.)

25.
The Annunciation of Our Lady. This feast was instituted by the apostles, and is the most ancient of all.—(John Bonifacius, lib. ii., Historia Virginis, c. 5.)

26.
Our Lady of Soissons, occupied, by Benedictine nuns. In this abbey is seen one of the shoes of Our Lady.—(Hugo Farcitus.)

27.
Apparition of Our Lord to Our Lady immediately after his resurrection. — (Alphonsus a Castro, c. 17.)

28.
Our Lady of Castlebruedo, at Olian, in Catalonia. It is related that every year, on the day of the Annunciation, three lights were seen of a blue color, which shone through the glass windows of this church, lighted the lamps and wax candles, went out by the game way, and immediately disappeared.—(Ludo Marinaeus. lib. Y., de rebus Hispanicis, c. ultimo.)

29.
Apparition of Our Lady to St. Bonet, Bishop of Clermont, in Auvergne, whom she ordered to say mass one night when he had remained in the church to pray. The saint leaning against a pillar, as if to hide himself, the stone became soft and made the place for him, which is seen to this day. But the Blessed Virgin having obliged him to officiate, she left him, when mass was over, the chasuble which had been brought him by angels to celebrate in. The heavenly present is still to be seen at Clermont, where it is preserved with great care.—(See his Life in Surius, Jan. 15.)

30.
Restoration of the chapel of Our Lady, at Boulogne-sur-mer, by Caude Dormy, bishop of that city.—(Triple Couronne, n. 53.)

31.
Our Lady of the Holy Cross, at Jerusalem, where is kept a part of Our Lady's veil, given by St. Helena.--(Onuohrius, lib. vii.. Eccl.)