Nine in 10 religious men and women say a Marian devotion ‘positively impacted’ them while discerning a vocation.

On July 16, 1251, the Virgin Mary appeared to Carmelite priest St. Simon Stock and presented him with a brown scapular.

In the 1280s, a loggia for the market was built by the architect Arnolfo di Cambio. Soon after its construction, Orsanmichele ...