Venerating the Rocío Virgin has been a tradition since the main icon was discovered near this village in the southern Spanish ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocio Virgin, a Catholic icon of the ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

Security video caught a person knocking the head off of a statue depicting the Virgin Mary early Thursday morning at a Wichita clinic that offers free healthcare to people who can’t afford it.

It’s also why the rosary is one of the most widely used prayers — including publicly for the pope — and why popular devotions to the Virgin Mary, including processions and festivals ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking ... That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around the world, whose ...

A million people make wilderness pilgrimage to honour 13th-century Virgin Mary icon - The romería del Rocío has grown into ...