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unusual facts about Mother Mary



Church of Our Lady of Light

A Church in Chennai, India locally called as Luz Church where it is believed that Portuguese friars were miraculously saved by a bright light after praying to Mother Mary.


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Abbey of Regina Laudis

Mother Benedict and Mother Mary were both nuns of the Benedictine Abbey of Notre Dame de Jouarre in France.

Alexander Wortley

His mother Mary was one of the 35 women killed by the Barnbow munitions explosion in 1916.

Anissa Jones

At the time of her birth, father John Paul Jones was an engineering graduate & faculty board member at Purdue University and mother Mary Paula Jones (née Tweel) was a zoology student there.

Anne Clutterbuck

Her mother, Mary Doherty Uhrbrock, was a journalist for Parents Magazine and Birds Eye Foods.

Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia

The community of Beaver Bank dates back to 1776 when Loyalists from Boston John Henry Barnstead (1764–1861) and his mother, Mary Brown Parcel Barnstead, arrived there.

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Devoted to his family, he crossed the continent on his first American trip to visit Mother Mary Baptist Russell of San Francisco (who, with two others of his sisters, had entered the Order of Mercy), and found time to write for his children and send them day by day an admirable account of his experiences.

Chellis Glendinning

Glendinning's relations include Thomas Hooker, founder of the colony of Connecticut; Dr. Frank E.Bunts, founder of the Cleveland Clinic; and the civil rights activist, her mother Mary Hooker Glendinning.

Elizabeth, comtesse de Gramont

Her father was Sir George Hamilton, and her mother, Mary Butler, sister of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde.

Francis Beaufort

His mother Mary was the daughter and co-heiress of William Waller, of Allenstown, County Meath.

History of Trumbull, Connecticut

Benjamin Silliman was born in the Eliakim Beach tavern, built by mill owner Ebenezer Hawley in 1765, a few months after his mother Mary (Fish) Silliman (widow of John Noyes) fled from their Fairfield home to escape 2,000 invading British troops ordered to burn Fairfield.

Homer Hulbert

His mother Mary Elizabeth Woodward Hulbert was a granddaughter of Mary Wheelock, daughter of Eleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College.

Mary Clare Millea

Mother Mary Clare Millea is the superior general of the Catholic Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Michelle Sy

Sy is producing a biopic about late musician Jeff Buckley with the singer's mother, Mary Guibert, which as of May 2008 is in the scripting stage.

Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960

From the age of 3, Tate, an only child, lived in Peconic, Long Island, New York, with his mother Mary, who worked as a kitchen maid for a wealthy family.

Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces

According to an interview with the Prioress of the Carmelite Monastery, Mother Mary of the Sacred Heart and Sister Mary Balthazar were ordered to burn several boxes containing leaflefts, novena booklets, rose petals, and any religious paraphernalia pertaining to the apparition.

Ralph Tambs-Lyche

He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).

Saint Louis Abbey

On the grounds outside the church sit life-size sculptures of Saint Benedict, by Lithuanian-born artist Wiktor Szostalo, and of the Virgin Mary, the "Holy Blessed Virgin Mother Mary, Our Lady of Grace" by American sculptor Philip Howie.

Sisters of St. Mary

Anna Katherine (later Mother Mary Odilia) Berger was born in Regen, Bavaria.

Stuart Clark

Clark is the son of Anglo-Indian parents, his father Bruce Clark who is from Madras (now Chennai) was a student at Christ Church Anglo Indian-High School Madras, and his mother Mary Clark (née Boosey) is from the Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, India; her family is a famous sporting family.

Treaty of Edinburgh

Mary, Queen of Scots, the reigning monarch of the time, may not have wanted the Treaty to be ratified as she was heavily attached to France, having been its Queen Consort, and viewed the Lords of the Congregation as rebels against her mother Mary of Guise.

Walter Broadnax

Born October 21, 1944, in Star City, Arkansas, to a railroad man named Walter Broadnax and mother Mary Lee Broadnax, Broadnax attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Hoisington, Kansas.