Hans Memling’s “Virgin and Child with Sts. Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara,” from the early 1480s, is an enchanting example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Mary is shown ...

"Though still a virgin she carried a child in her womb ... Physician who is possessed of both flesh and spirit....both of Mary and of God." St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle To The Ephesians ...

“And Joachim brought the child to the priests,” the account ... Saint Augustine described the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary as an event of cosmic and historic significance, and an ...

May will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary ... Everything Mary said and did leads to Christ. Who knows a child better than a mother?

On Dec. 8, 1854, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was solemnly defined and proclaimed by Pope Pius IX as follows: The most Blessed Virgin ... for she was a child of Adam together ...

May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary are a series of ... a tree stump in the churchyard contains the image of the Virgin Mary and Child and that hundreds of visitors had come to the area ...

This background information may help in understanding this Feast of Mama Mary’s Assumption. It was Pope Pius XII who formally “confirmed this belief about the Virgin ... as a child at her ...

Is the assumption of the Virgin Mary referenced in ... To celebrate the assumption of Mary into heaven, plant flowers around a statue of the Blessed Mother in your yard, read books about the ...

The day is celebrated in the Catholic tradition when St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an early Franciscan missionary, saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on his way to mass. When Diego saw ...