The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...

Material Girl was released as a single on 23 January 1985 - 40 years ago to the day. But while this is one of her best-known and best-loved songs, Madonna has mixed feelings about it.

As of 2024, All About Mary ... Virgin was acclaimed Queen of Poland by King Casimir. It is also recorded that Our Lady dispersed an army of Russian invaders by an apparition at the River Vistula on ...

In Sicily it is told that the Madonna's Juniper Bush opened its branches to ... The strawberry was called Fruitful Virgin and it was told that Mary would go a-berrying with her Son on St. John's Day, ...

The Black Madonna, or Black Virgin, challenges the 'accepted' characteristics and symbolism of the traditional fair-skinned Virgin Mary—a highly contentious issue in some quarters of the ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...

An exhibition in Paris spotlights the witty work of one of the most innovative designers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Ketch Secor, founder and frontman of Old Crow Medicine Show, emcees the second night of the 48th annual Ann Arbor Folk Fest ...

Chief reporter Neal Keeling has been a visitor to Roma for more than 30 years. Here he writes about his love for a café where ...

Its title, Madonna della Rosa (“Madonna of the Rose”), comes from the symbolic rose depicted in the scene, which has often been interpreted as a reference to the Virgin Mary’s purity and suffering.