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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary Damage is seen at the Shrine of St. Anthony of Padua in Green Bay April 26, 2024. (WLUK/David Duchan) GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus ...

Ramses II's missing upper half statue found in Egypt after a century ... dated back to the sixth century AD and were dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

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 ...

A stolen statue of the Virgin Mary would have needed two people to force it from its plinth, according to the church-goer who donated it. The ten-stone marble statue was taken from the street by ...

A couple of homes have American flags outside, another has a statue of the Virgin Mary in the yard ... triangular block of granite. Bronze molds of the boy’s faces could hang on two of the ...

Explore Buffalo docent and board member Gary Szakmary wrote and led the tour of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church ... Sgraffito of Assumption Statue of Pope John Paul II This visit ...

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 ...

It includes a broken door and windows, damage to an informational kiosk and the decapitation of a statue of the Virgin Mary. "I got a call, this morning, from one of the officers he just explained ...