(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have ...

Dragicevic was 16 years old, and Medjugorje, then in communist ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is ...

So this is a fitting time to consider Our Lady as “Queen of All Saints” (because that is what she is and we hope to be) and ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

I pray thee, therefore, most loving Mother, who art the Seat of Wisdom, to bless my labors in thy loving-kindness. Moreover I promise with true affection and a willing spirit, as it is right that ...

A previously unknown Sandro Botticelli painting was discovered using scientific analysis at Saint Félix church in the French ...

In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...

A depiction of a Virgin Mary in a wheelchair is among artwork featuring ... Marc Bratcher said disability has been largely absent from art The cathedral said it wanted to host the exhibition ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to ...

One such work is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s very own Madonna and Child ... The work features a central figure of the Virgin Mary draped in black and gold cloth, with a tiny infant Jesus ...

Rejoice, O Bride unwedded, the world's salvation." The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem, which sings the praises of the Holy Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary. It is one of the most beloved ...