The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated by Catholics each year on Aug. 15. The day celebrates the assumption of Mary's body and soul into heaven.

The Blessed Mother received this title when she appeared to three shepherd children in the small village of Fátima, Portugal, in 1917. Against the backdrop of World War I, the Virgin Mary ...

"Mary meets us everywhere. Even in the place or in the moment that we do not find anyone, Our Lady, Mary, is there." ...

The callous creep used a rock to desecrate the statue in front of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica at around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, the Diocese of Brooklyn said.

Indonesian Muslims joined Catholics to celebrate a religious-cultural festival dedicated to Mother Mary in the country’s ...

The day is celebrated in the Catholic tradition when St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an early Franciscan missionary, saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on his way to mass.

Elenita de Jesús is not the Virgin Mary." He added that "it cannot be denied that the figure of Elenita de Jesús has great value" for the church in Puerto Rico.

Statues Of Blessed Virgin Mary Damaged. July 31, 2013 1 / 2. The statues were found smashed at the Church of the Ascension School in Halethorpe. 2 / 2.

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. The statue of Mary itself is to be 133.2-feet high, sitting atop a pedestal in the form of a 50-foot-high crown.

For five weeks on Flores Island, 26 parishes partake in processions and prayers ahead of the Solemnity of the Assumption of ...