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 ...

Catholic devotees always make it a point to visit the holy image of the Nuestra Señora de la Purificación y la Candelaria ...

The Spanish celebration of La Candelaria kicks off as penitents remember the anniversary of the day when Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth. Known as ...

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 ...

Gorillaz are back. Today, the Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett-created group has shared a new song called “Hallelulah Money,” featuring Mercury Prize winner Benjamin Clementine. It’s the first ...

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 ...