The prayerful appreciation is for the beatification one year ago this month of the founder of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, Bl. Stanislaus Papczynski (1631-1701).
From near and far - from just down the road in Stockbridge and all the way from India - pilgrims paid homage to the Blessed Mother's crowning as Queen of Heaven.
Vowing to imitate the Lord, to deny themselves, and follow Christ's footsteps, two Marian seminarians have professed final vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. View a photo gallery from the day!
Marian Week 2008 runs from Friday, Aug. 15 to Friday, Aug. 22. Each day features a Rosary procession, confessions, Mass, and praying the Chaplet of The Divine Mercy.
With Our Lady's apparitions to St. Bernadette, Our Lady "improves" upon our understanding of her Immaculate Conception, said Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC.