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ACI Prensa: Here’s Why the Month of May is Dedicated to the Virgin Mary – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

ACI Prensa: Here’s Why the Month of May is Dedicated to the Virgin Mary

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By ACI Prensa, May 1, 2026

ACI Prensa is the Catholic News Agency’s sister agency, which was founded in Lima, Peru, in 1980 by Fr. Adalbert Marie Mohm (1986). In 1997, ACI Prensa launched the website… See full bio

A version of this story was first published by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.

 

The Catholic Church dedicates the entire month of May to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and spiritual mother of all.

In the plan of salvation, the Blessed Virgin Mary holds a special place. By virtue of her role to be the mother of the Son of God by divine election, she was conceived immaculately — i.e., without the stain of original sin — and by fidelity to her son has been crowned queen of heaven and earth.

Everything Mary said and did leads to Christ. Who knows a child better than a mother? And what good and loving child does not know his or her mother and love her with all of his or her heart? ….

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