The callous creep used a rock to desecrate the statue in front of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica at around ... people in this world who oppose these ...

Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed ... for a midnight ceremony in her honor. Certain images and stories of the Virgin Mary are so powerful they help define a country.

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.

To honor the Blessed Virgin Mary ... The basilica contains an icon of the Virgin Mary titled Mater Ecclesiae, which means “Mother of the Church.” The original image of the Virgin Mary and ...

The cloak imprinted with the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary received by Juan Diego ... among the first Indigenous people in the New World to embrace Catholicism.

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 ...

"Mary is the model of perfect love and obedience to Christ. God preserved Mary from sin, and she conceived our Lord by the power of the Holy Spirit, bringing Christ into our world," writes ...