Assumption

• What are the Marian dogmas?
• What is the Scriptural Support?

Customs

General

• What is meant by the expression "Age of Mary"?
• What is the earliest reference to the promise, "A devout child of Mary will never be lost"?
• How does one decide how to establish a patronal feast?
• Why does a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary go from home to home in some communities?
• What is the significance and/or history of cherry wood as it relates to Mary?
• When is Marian devotion exaggerated?

• What about the Solemnity of Mary? Is it the circumcision of Jesus?
• When is Marian devotion exaggerated?

Institutes  

• Who are the Militia of the Immaculate?

Devotees of Mary

• Where can I get information about Visitation/Elizabeth ministry in honor of Mary?
• What is known about the Marian devotion of St. Therese of Lisieux?
• Christopher Columbus and Mary: How marian was he?
• What is the Marian Movement of Priests?

Devotions

Chaplets & Rosary

• Information in obtaining the following three chaplets: The chaplet of St. Philomena, The Star of the Sea chaplet, and The chaplet of the Immaculate Conception (St. John Berchmans)
• Is there a chaplet, rosary or some other devotion to the seven joys of Mary?
• How did the Rosary originate?
• Is there a biblical basis for the Rosary?
• What is the meaning of the first part of the rosary?
• How do you pray the Rosary?
• What are the origins of the title Our Lady of the Rosary?
• What is the Fiat Rosary?
• Is there going to be a fourth series of Rosary mysteries?
• Is it proper to say the rosary during mass?
• What is the Missionary Rosary?
• Are there any instructions for praying the rosary at a wake?
• Are the "Rosary Novenas to Our Lady" available on the internet?
• Is there an easy way to start teaching a kindergartner how to pray the rosary?
• In both churches I attend (Ukrainian rite & Roman) May is dedicated to Mary. In the Roman Church I attend on weekdays we say the Rosary before Mass just as we do in October (in my Ukrainian rite we say the rosary before Mass throughout the year). Is saying the rosary before or after mass during the month of May universal in the Roman Church? When, where and how (or why) did this originate?
• Will God ignore my rosary if I am at my worst at concentration?
• Why is the rosary divided into groups of ten Hail Marys?
• What is the historical origin of the devotion to Our Blessed Lady of the Chain?
• Explain the devotion to black madonnas associated with Candlemas.
• What did Montfort have to say about the efficacy of the Rosary?
• Can you tell me anything about the origin of the 15 Promises of Mary?
• Are there special virtues attached to the 15 mysteries of the Rosary?

Consecration

• What is the meaning of consecration?
• Could you please explain "the total consecration to Jesus through Mary" according to the norm of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort?
• Is there a difference in consecration for Maximilian Kolbe and Grignion de Montfort?
• What is the origin of the expression "To Jesus through Mary"? 

Mary and the Millennium

• Our Lady of the Millennium, Mother of the Redeemer
• What role does devotion to Mary play in the Church's preparations for the Third Millennium?
• Could you give me information on what Pope John Paul says we should do as the Third Millennium draws near?
• How should we react to apocalyptic messages of warning, punishment and impending doom?

Mary as Disciple

• What was Mary's role as a disciple?
• Can Mary be regarded as priest? What is meant by Mary's priestly role?

Mary as Model

• Is Mary a Saint?
• Could you tell me Mary's attitude toward life?
• Are there any poems dealing with heart to heart conversations between Mother Mary and other mothers?
• Where can I find books to show what traits Mary has that can be connected to all other mothers?
• Model woman or model Christian?
• Why is Mary a model of contemplative prayer?

Mary in the Liturgy

• Does the liturgy give us any hints about Mary's life?
• Which are the Marian feast days?
• What is the Feast of the Theotokos, Life-giving Fountain celebrated on Bright Friday in the eastern tradition?
• What is the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
• What is the origin and meaning of the liturgical celebration of Mary as Queen?

Mother of God, Theotokos

• What is the meaning of Mary's title: Theotokos?
• What are the Marian dogmas?
• Do we really have to call Mary Mother of God? Isn't it correct just to call her Mother of Jesus?
• How can Mary be the mother of God when God is eternal? Did she exist before God?

Poetry, Hymns, Songs, Rhymes

• Can you provide text for Marian hymns?
• Does the nursery rhyme, "Mary, Mary quite contrary" refer to the Blessed Virgin?
• Are there any poems dealing with heart to heart conversations between Mother Mary and other mothers?
• Could you give me information on the 'Stabat Mater' written by Jacopone der Todi?
• Do you have texts appropriate to a May Crowning?

Shrines

• Where is the largest church dedicated to Mary located?
• Is there a shrine called Our Lady of the Forest?
• What can you tell me about Our Lady's Shrine at Kevelaer?
• Can you provide resources to learn about the history of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.?
• Can you relate the story of Tindari?
• Is San Juan de los Lagos among the known Mexican Marian shrines?
• How large is the Basilica Church of Our Lady of Peace?
• What is Our Lady of La Vang?
• Is there a Walsingham in Texas?
• Can you provide information about the National Shrine of Our Lady which is located in Carey, Ohio?
• What is "Maria Baumgartle"?
• What is the origin of Our Lady of Pilar?
• What is Notre Dame of Myans?
• What is the significance of Our Lady of Ciskomlo?
• Can you tell me about the Marian shrine at Walsingham, England?
• Is Maria de Talpa Mexican?
• Can you tell me more about the "Chapel of Mercy" in Germany?
• Is there a Marian shrine in Taiwan?
• Can you tell me the origins of the Marian Shrine at Vailankanni?
• Do you have information about the image "Return to Ladye Park"?
• Can you provide information on the Marian Shrine at Sameiro, Portugal?
• Is there a Marian shrine in Italy by the name of Madonna of Caravaggio?
• What do you know about the Black Madonna ("Schwarze Mutter Gottes") at the Church of St. Maria in der Kupfergasse, Cologne, Germany?
• Can you provide me with information about the shrine to "Our Lady of Africa" in Abidjan [Ivory Coast]?
• What is the story about the Marian Statue in Urakami, Japan?

• Is there an "Our Lady of America" in Ohio?

Titles

• Would you please help me find out more about the origins of the painting and the history of the devotion of Our Lady of Light?
• Why and how is the Old Testament figure of the Queen Mother a type or model of Our Lady?
• What is the meaning of the expression: Mary Seat of Wisdom (Sedes Sapientiae)?
• How do all of the titles for Mary come about?
• Why does Mary have so many different titles?

• What can you tell us about Mary as Queen of Creation?
• In what ways can Mary be shown as Our Lady of Mercy?
• Do you have information about Nuestra Senora de la Cueva Santa -- Our Lady of the Sacred Cave?
• Who is "Our Lady of the Rock"?
• Who is "Our Lady of Tears"?

• Can you tell me the meaning of a medal entitled Our Lady of Olives?
• Madonna of the Street
• Is Mary Empress of the Americas?
• What about Our Lady of Victory?
• Could you explain the origin or history of "Our Lady of Consolation"?
• Is Virgen de la Merced or Virgen de Mercedes the same as Our Lady of Mercy?
• Who is Our Lady of Confidence?
• What is the origin of the Marian title of the Immaculate Heart?
• Who is Our Lady of Providence?
• Why do we call Mary Queen?
• What is the meaning of Our Lady of the Chair?
• What is the origin and meaning of the expression Mystical Rose (Rosa Mystica)?
• What about other forms of Mary's name?
• What is the origin of the title "Lady of the Lilies"?
• Where did the title Mary Queen of Apostles come from?
• What is the origin and meaning of the expression stella matutina (morning star)?
• Has Mary been referred to as Our Lady of the Sea?
• Star of the Sea?
• What is the history of Our Lady of Solitude?
• What is the origin of Mary's title: Our Lady of Ransom?
• Is it appropriate to pray to or think of Mary as "Saint" Mary?
• Tell me about the Virgin of the Dew...in Spanish they call her Salve Rociera Maria.
• Can you elaborate on the traditions of Our Lady of Auvergne? Are there special prayers or devotions?
• Where does the title, Our Lady of Grace, originate?
• What does the title, Virgen de la O, signify?
• Does the name "Miriam" refer to the Virgin Mary?
• What about the title of "domina"?
• What about Our Lady of Olives?
• What about the Queen of the Universe?
• Could you give me more information on the statue, "Virgen Morena" of Toledo, Spain, especially on its relationship to the "Virgen Blanca" in Toledo?
• What is the origin of the title, Madonna, for the Blessed Virgin Mary?
• In what century and where was the word "Madonna" used to describe the Blessed Virgin?
• Can you provide information about the title Our Lady of Peace and any artist depiction of this?
• Why did the Roman Commission reject Mediatrix as a dogma?
• Could you explain the feast and image of 'Mary of the Nettles'?
• Please provide information on Our Lady of Sorrows.
• Why is Mary "thrice admirable"?
• Who is Our Lady of Olvido, Triunfo and Misericordias?
• What is the meaning of Virgen de la Vega?
• How does Mary relate to the Heavenly Jerusalem?

• Why is England called "Our Lady's Dowry"?