Art historian Elina Gertsman, PhD, is a self-described master of persistence, a talent she used often as she searched for medieval Virgin Mary statues once so controversial that an 18th-century pope ...

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people ...

The church says someone stole the decades-old figure of the Virgin Mary from their front steps. Some wire is all that is left in the space where a five-foot statue of the Virgin Mary used to greet ...

A California ski resort’s plans to erect a 20-foot statue of the Virgin Mary has some locals snowblind with rage. Mt. Shasta Ski Park in McCloud will build the platform for the effigy atop its ...

Here's why the day is so important, particularly for Mexican Catholic communities. Church's Virgin Mary statue replaced after gunfire incident Virgin of Guadalupe statue hit by gunfire outside SE ...

Still to be found in one of the local churches of the Diocese is the statue known as the Clonfert Madonna. It is a beautiful image of the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus held in her arms. Although ...

A STOLEN statue of the Virgin Mary has been replaced. The ten-stone marble statue was taken from the street by Marias Gardens in Palmerston Road on August 7. Parishioners described the theft of ...

The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...

The painting, “The Manchester Madonna,” depicts the Virgin Mary sitting on a rock with a book in hand and two young boys, Jesus and John the Baptist, at her feet. Two angels stand to her right ...

Under thy patronage, dear Mother, and calling on the mystery of thine Immaculate Conception, I desire to pursue my studies and my literary labors: I hereby solemnly declare that I am giving myself ...

He came from the glory, He came from the glorious kingdom. He came from the glory, He came from the glorious kingdom. Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! He came from ...

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 ...