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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...