Deepertruth: The Story of The Virgin Mary and Geroge Washington Valley Forge

The Story of The Virgin Mary and Geroge Washington Valley Forge

Our Lady, who, under the title of the Immaculate Conception, is still today our national patroness, played an important role in the establishment of the United States and the life of our nations most vital Founding Father, George Washington. 

Our Lady’s intervention may have saved the life of General George Washington on several occasions; it’s also recorded that she encouraged him at the most trying time of the American Revolution, appearing to him at his headquarters in Valley Forge during the terrible winter of 1777 and 1778.

He later described her as a “woman of singular beauty, ” and related how she said, “Son of the Republic, look and learn! ” In the vision of the future he was then given, Washington saw the colonies take root and thrive, only to be fiercely attacked and dreadfully scourged on three different occasions; the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and a future conflict (World War III? ) still to take place. A painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary hung in the Washington's residence at Mount Vernon.

George Washington was friendly with Catholics and was determined to defend their right to worship. He was friends with John Carroll, the first Catholic Bishop of the United States. Washington was known to make the sign of the cross before his meals. It was a long tradition among both the Maryland Province Jesuits and the slaves of the Washington plantation and those of the surrounding area that the first President died a Catholic.