Carved from dark wood, the statue is an icon of Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. Had its supernatural story played out somewhere else ― such as Mexico, where a cloak bearing Mary’s ...

A type of icon screen wall, this one is magnificently decorated with icons strikingly painted in deep shades of red, blue and gold. | Behind the iconostasis, which separates the sanctuary from the ...

Pope Francis prays in front of the Marian icon "Salus Populi Romani," (health of the Roman people), during a Marian vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in 2016 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).

A year-old Wheeling nursing home catering to natives of Greece has done just about everything it can to provide a taste of home–Mediterranean cuisine, coffee ground readings, you name it. The… ...

Also in May, a third icon of the Virgin Mary - this one, too, belonging to Koulis - appeared to be weeping, church officials said. This icon today remains with Koulis' relatives in Florida .

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Officials in the Russian Orthodox Church have recognized the icon of St. Anna, the Mother of the Holy Virgin Mary, as a miraculous weeping icon, said Father Michael Juk, a monk at the Monastery of ...

Icons of Annotto Bay founder and president, Wyatt â Spurâ Williams (left) shares elbow greetings withmatron of the St Mary Infirmary, Sharon Burke, and Icons director, Dr Nagendra Babu Chandolu ...

The Virgin Mary icon seemed to become almost an ally for Francis in his papacy. He visited her on his first day as pope in 2013, and would pray to her before and after every trip out of Rome.

In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new study is hoping to reassert her place in history.