12, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary ... completed around the year 1700, shows her untying knots from a long ribbon. The image was inspired ...

The year was 1945, and 9-year-old Joseph Vitolo was playing in an empty lot on the Grand Concourse when he said The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him. The story made headlines around the world ...

These images morphed to portray Mary as a queen. (Thirteen of the 55 titles of Mary in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin call her ... in the everydayness of our world. She points to where we ...

Read the full story and see more of Markosian’s pictures from this project in the story “How the Virgin Mary Became the World’s Most Powerful Woman.” See more of Diana Markosian’s work ...

On the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis venerated ... ladder to put a fresh wreath of flowers around Mary’s outstretched arms.