TLACOTALPAN, Mexico (RNS) — Each February for more than 100 years, inhabitants of the small town in southern Mexico have honored the Virgin de la Candelaria in a weeklong festival marking the ...

You probably remember seeing three kings bread, or rosca de reyes, lining the shelves of your favorite panadería during the first week of January. If you were one of the lucky few who found a ...

The line between reality and the imaginary blurs during Peru's Fiesta de la Candelaria. Beginning on February 2, the town of Puno, Peru, which sits at the edge of Lake Titicaca, is flooded with ...

The image of Our Lady of Candelaria is the second image in the archdiocese to be granted an episcopal coronation after the image of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Manila, which was crowned in ...