After blessing the faithful, he entered the chapel that houses the Marian icon, traditionally attributed to St. John the ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia GENAZZANO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary ... of St. Mary Major in Rome. That’s just three of a myriad Virgin ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary ... Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

St. Irenaeus, "Against All Heresies," c. 180 A.D. "And thus also it was that the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin ... [Crucifixion] to the ...

The obsession with Mary’s virginity began much later when, in his gospel, Matthew, quoted Isaiah 7:14: “Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.” ...