AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding tears, leaving the sisters and nuns at a Catholic church here without an explanation. From the ...

Doctor of the Church relied on divine grace and the maternal care of the Virgin Mary to temper that vice and become a man of ...

Years before narrowly surviving the Palisades Fire, the McGeagh family's Virgin Mary statue was spared from another major LA ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

My introduction to art happened in my hometown of Athy, Co Kildare. It was an age of belief; religion dominated everyday ...

Sally Read combines art history and literary memoir to recount a spiritual mystery — and a quest to discover the Blessed ...

The placement of the Virgin Mary's statue at that particular spot ... However, she said that Native American tribes and New Age practitioners “are able to enjoy their form of worship without ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Mary Gardens, gardens planted with herbs and flowers that through the ages have been associated with the Virgin Mary, can be said to have roots that go back to ...

The Feast of Mary Help of Christians is celebrated on May ... His many prophetic dreams, beginning at age nine, guided his ministry and gave insights on future events. On May 14, 1862, Don Bosco ...

Scientists are debating if a fresco depicting a smiling Virgin Mary in the Gumusler Monastery in Cappadocia, Turkey is original or the result of a restoration gone wrong. Carved into a large rock mass ...

In a story published Jan. 13, 2025, The Associated Press reported that a crown stolen from a Philadelphia church was created by James E. Caldwell & Co. around 1900. The story should have made clear ...

I was the one who brought my family back to Sunday Mass because they were the reason I stopped going in the first place.” ...