Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in many Catholic parishes across Southern California on her feast day, Dec. 12, marking the appearance of Mary to St. Juan Diego, an Indigenous man, near Mexico ...

ROSARY & ART: The Fifth Glorious Mystery is the Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven Democrito Bernardo Bitti, “The Coronation of the Virgin,” ca. 1575, Church of San Pedro, Lima, Peru (photo ...

A sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus has been destroyed just days after it went on view at a cathedral in northern Austria and drew criticism from some Catholics, who ...

Pope Francis on Saturday added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints, honoring young siblings who reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago. May 13, 2017 ...

Virgin Mary at center of Catholic, Orthodox Christian celebrations on Tuesday Tuesday’s Feast of the Assumption, which honors Mary, became dogma in 1950 August 12, 2023 at 2:47 a.m.

The Vatican has rejected claims that a 19th century Puerto Rican missionary was the Virgin Mary. Cardinal Víctor Fernández clarified claims about Elenita de Jesús in an August 1 letter to the ...

The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe marks the Catholic Church teaching that the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Juan Diego, an Indigenous Mexican, on a Tepeyac hill in present-day Mexico City in 1531.

The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.. Previous approved ...

From Michelangelo’s Pieta to a 12th-century painting, St. Peter’s Basilica contains priceless sacred art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Akathist hymn, which has been prayed in both the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches ever since, gives Mary the military title “Champion General” in thanks for that victory.

The Catholic diocese of Linz said in a statement that the Virgin Mary’s head was sawed off early Monday morning in an act of vandalism. The work, titled “Crowning” by Austrian artist Esther ...

Video. Thousands of pilgrims gathered in southern Spain on Monday to honour the Virgin of El Rocío, a revered Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.