Marian devotion in the history of the Catholic Church has played an important role in enlivening the practice of faith among believers. Devotional practices have been maintained from generation to generation thanks to Marian apparitions, miracles and signs. Faithful eyewitnesses bear witness to Mary through their experiences and visions, so that powerful Marian messages can be spread, and these messages have become central theological cores of devotion in every community of faith. This is also true for Marian devotion in Vietnam. Our Lady of La Vang is becoming an impressive phenomenon of faith practice for Vietnamese Catholic communities and individuals around the world. Coming from an oral tradition, Vietnamese Catholics gradually and authentically pay homage to Our Lady of La Vang and strive to maintain a Vietnamese tradition of Marian devotion, a classic and different “version” with a common development of world devotion . Such strong devotion was likely influenced by cultural, political and theological elements as hidden motivations that need to be explored when mapping Our Lady of La Vang onto global Marian devotion. The Collage of Apparitions and Global Marian Devotion A Brief History of Global Marian Devotion ApparitionsThe Marian apparition is a worldwide phenomenon. According to his book Miracles of Mary (published in 1995), Michael S. Durham reports that there have been "more than twenty-one thousand" Marian apparitions over the past ten centuries. In these many cases, in responding to human needs, the Marian messages are also diverse and could be classified into certain categories, such as Lady of Peace and Prayer, Healing Mary, Silent Mary, Mary of Saints, Our Lady of Sorrows, “Build Me”. Here a church, 'Lady of Help...... middle of paper ...... to Our Holy Mother of La Vang]. Radio Veritas Asia. Accessed May 5, 2014. http://www.catholic.org.tw/vntaiwan/ghvienam/kihlavag.htm.Phan, Peter C. “Mary in Vietnamese Piety and Theology.” In In Our Own Language: Asian Perspective on Mission and Inculturation, 92-108. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2003. Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Mary: The Church at the source, 27-30, 121-124. Translated by Adrian Walker. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. Taylor, Philip. Goddess in full swing: pilgrimage and popular religion in Vietnam, 18-37, 251-255. University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Varghese, Roy Abraham. Sent by God: A History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary, 1-56, 81-82. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2000. Xuan Ha. “Những Kinh Kính Đức Mẹ”, [Prayers of veneration to Mary]. Accessed May 1, 2014, http://xuanha.net/Kinhnguyen-Cahat/5kinhkinhducme.htm.