40 years ago, on November 12, 1984, Madonna‘s Like a Virgin album, with its iconic cover art lensed by fashion photographer Steven Meisel, came out and it still makes us feel shiny and new ...

In the Augustinian Madonna, dating from the early 1600s, what hits the viewer at eye level are the dirty soles of a ragged pilgrim couple's feet as they kneel by the apparition of the Virgin Mary.

A year after beginning work, Mt. Shasta Ski Park completed construction last week on a 20-foot statue of the Virgin Mary holding up the baby Jesus. The Madonna, which overlooks the resort from the ...

Why Popes and Catholics Pray to the Virgin Mary. 6d, May 17 ... "The Madonna has guided me since childhood," said Anastasia Galizia, a local resident who witnessed the pope's visit.