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The Miracle of the August Snow: Rediscovering Mary's Feasts This Summer – Claudia McAdam – 08/07/2026
Three Feasts, Seventeen Days Claudia Cangilla McAdam breaks down August's "mini Marian season": the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major (Aug. 5), the Assumption of Mary (Aug. 15), and the Queenship of Mary (Aug. 22).
The Legend Behind St. Mary Major McAdam recounts the fourth-century story of a wealthy Roman couple who prayed to Mary for guidance and were told, in a vision, to build a church where snow would miraculously fall — which it reportedly did on Rome's Esquiline Hill in the heat of August, 358 A.D.
A New Children's Book McAdam's chapter book, The Miracle of the August Snow…
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