Twenty-seven years ago today, a rainbow-tinged image of what appeared to be the Virgin ... the Mother of Jesus or the Mother of God, among many other titles, the Holy Mother Mary receives devotion ...

On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval ... the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around ...

This catalogue, first published in 1605 with illustrations, would later go down in history for containing the earliest images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary ... unless otherwise noted.) (Header image: ...

But ideas about blood were fundamental to almost every aspect of medieval life, from the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist, in which wine was transformed into the blood of Jesus, to medicine ...

a medieval town, and on his way back, he paused at Pope Francis' tomb inside Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major to pray. These are just a few among countless devotions to the Virgin Mary found ...

On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland banning Catholic bishops and priests from the country, an image of the Virgin Mary known ...

12, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin ... depicted Mary holding an olive branch in her right hand and the Prince of Peace, Jesus, seated in ...

Today, Boyle said, he’s become “a sort of mouthpiece for Jesus ... the Virgin Mary are so powerful they help define a country. That’s the case with Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose image on ...

A statue of Mary, mother of Jesus ... after the image of Mary stood strong as the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Iskenderun was destroyed. "I brought the image of the Virgin Mary from the ...

In total, Mary appeared to Soubirous 18 times until in her final appearance she revealed that she was “the Immaculate Conception.” To date, this image of the Virgin Mary, a white woman with ...