They joined a festive Mass at which Philippine bishops crowned the statue of the parish patroness, six months after Pope Benedict XVI approved the coronation. On April 22, 2005, only three days after ...

Honoree Paula Sharp places the May flower crown atop the statue outside St. Mary, ... "The Blessed Mother is very special in my heart, as well as this church," she said.

Her mother, Doris Heffron, went to the convent school around 1929, she said. Years later, Van Patten got her associate degree at Maria Regina College, a Catholic school for women that closed in 1988.

James E. Caldwell and Company melted the gold and fashioned the crown, inset with the donated jewels, said Hardwood, adding that around the year 1900, the statue was crowned. “It was set on the head ...

Center City church burglarized as gold, jeweled crown stolen off Mary statue. By Greg Payne and FOX 29 Staff. ... "It means a lot, that’s the blessed mother of Christ, ...

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- A Philadelphia parish is in shock following the brazen theft of an historic golden crown from a beloved statue of Mary. An intruder smashed a stained-glass window at St.

It records few women draping a saree to the statue of Mother Mary. ... A dark blue and golden crown was added to complete the look along with placing the holy Rosary in her blessed hands.

‘Evil’: Century-old Blessed Mother statue destroyed at Brooklyn church by: Cory McGinnis. Posted: Oct 24, 2024 / 06:12 PM EDT. Updated: Oct 24, 2024 / 07:15 PM EDT.

The vandal used a rock from the parish garden to “repeatedly strike” a statue of the Blessed Mother outside the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jamaica, Queens, this week.

A “hateful” vandal smashed a statue of the Blessed Mary outside a Catholic church in Queens this week, police said. The callous creep used a rock to desecrate the statue in front of the ...