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Pope Paul VI was a pilgrim (very briefly) to Beirut in 1964, en route to India. Blessed John Paul II wrote an apostolic letter on the situation in Lebanon in 1989 to all the bishops of the Catholic Church. He was a pilgrim in Lebanon in 1997, visiting Beirut, on his 77th apostolic journey.

Blessed John Paul II's Prayer
_{11 May 1997 - in English, French, Italian, Portuguese & Spanish}

_{"At the time of the Marian prayer, we also invoke the saints who lived in this land. With you, I pray to St Maron, St Charbel and Bl. Rafka. I am also thinking of Venerable Al-Hardini, whom I soon hope to have the joy to enrol among the blesseds.}

_{With you, I entrust all the sons and daughters of the country to Our Lady of Lebanon. May the Mother of the Lord, present at the foot of the Cross and in the Upper Room at Pentecost, gather in faith, hope and love her children present in the country or dispersed throughout the world! May she help your pastors in their ministry! May she sustain the fidelity to prayer and charitable service of monks and nuns, of men and women religious! May she accompany lay people in their ecclesial life and in their service to society! May she strengthen families in unity and love and in devotion to their educational mission! May she guide young people on the paths of life!}

_{May Mary, in her motherly tenderness, comfort the poorest, those who are suffering in body or mind, prisoners and refugees!}

_{Our Lady of Lebanon, watch over all the people who live in this land so sorely tried! The Successor of Peter, who has come here to bring all a message of faith and hope, entrusts them to you. On the threshold of the third Christian millennium, may we see the prophetic message of Isaiah fulfilled: “Is it not a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?” (29:17)!}

_{O Most Holy Virgin, grant that this people of ancient origins but ever young may remain the worthy heir of their distinguished history and build their future dynamically in dialogue with all, in mutual respect for the different groups and in fraternal harmony!}

_{Queen of Peace, protect Lebanon!
Queen of Peace, we pray you, hear us!"}

Prières en français sur Totus2us

Le Chapelet et la Neuvaine à la Miséricorde Divine       ♦

Le Saint Rosaire avec Soeur Hyacinthe Defos du Rau OP et Frère Charles Mary. La musique est chantée par Anna Johnstone. 

Clara       ♦

_{"The Virgin Mary is like a mother for me, a mother of all of us.}

_{Pour moi la Vierge, c'est une mère, la mère de tous."}

Fida       ♦

_{"Je veux remercier la Sainte Marie a propos ma mère … Je demande pour protéger ma famille et pour faire la paix à tout le monde."}

Joelle       ♦

_{"My relationship with Jesus started through Mary. One day when I was really upset and sad and honestly I was feeling really depressed and I asked Saint Mary to take my heart and to give me her heart so I would feel happy. And suddenly, when I was praying, out of nowhere I felt this peace and this happiness in my heart that I can never, never, never describe. And since that day I decided to start a close relationship with Jesus because of Saint Mary."}

Mary       ♦

^{"I can't imagine my life without Mother Mary being with me. I'm here first of all to tell her how much I love her, she means the world to me; to thank Jesus for everything that is happening to me, for being next to me."}

Mazen       ♦

_{"I've always prayed to the Virgin Mary and recently I've been praying more often, but I feel that she's making me get closer to Jesus, closer to God, and she's been blessing me with lots of love, lots of happiness, taking my worries away, making me feel a happier person."}

_{Mazen gives his response in English & Arabic.}

Nida       ♦

_{"I came to Lourdes from Lebanon to thank Our Lady because she makes with me so many miracles.  She is the Queen of my heart and the Lady of our family. And she is the mother of the creature and the Creator. Thanks for this Saint Mary, mother of Jesus Christ."}

_{Nida gives her quelque chose de Marie in English, French & Armenian.}

Solange       ♦

_{"I have a big, big devotion to Our Lady because she is the mother of all, she is love for me. I trust her so much because whenever I asked her to be in my life, to help me, she has always been present."}