After the service at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, parishioners went outside to pray and place flowers in a vase in front of Mary's statue.

For many decades, the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes stood as a beloved neighborhood landmark. Built into the corner of 2 Aberdeen Street at the intersection of Aberdeen and Broadway, the stone ...

Visions of the Virgin Mary in Ireland Hundreds flock to Irish town for visions of Mary at holy grotto.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1994. Summary A stone grotto containing an altar enclosed by a vaulted roof with two nearby figures. The grotto depicts the Virgin Mary's apparition to ...

Almost every Catholic church or sanctuary has a grotto for the Blessed Virgin Mary who, in various forms and grottos, is honored by thousands of people who ask her for intercessions to Jesus.

Father Paul Doberstein, who built the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, was ordained on this day in history in 1897.

A worker attaches gold leaf to the Blessed Virgin Mary sculpture. The statue was removed from the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes near Emmitsburg a year ago for restoration.

The most recognizable feature at the National Shrine Grotto is a 26-foot tall gilded sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hilda Berkley of Bethlehem, West Bank, prays at a painting of Mary breast-feeding the infant Jesus at the Milk Grotto chapel in Bethlehem. The Milk Grotto is believed to be where Mary breast-fed ...

Exclusive: The statue of the Virgin Mary, which is nearly five feet in height and forms a central part of the popular Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in the Wicklow town of Kilmacanogue, was discovered ...