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

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

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a ...

The Catholic Church has appropriated May for the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thus, every Catholic Church celebrates ...

to find the True Cross, on which Jesus was said to be crucified. It has since become part of Filipino tradition focused on youth and their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Santacruzan is a Filipino tradition that combines Catholic devotion and cultural pageantry. Held at the end of May, it honors ...

The scientific conclusion? The tears were human bodily fluid. The sculpture of the Virgin Mary with a cross on her back is 120 centimeters tall with the stand. It is said that the face of the ...

the tragic moment of the Virgin Mary taking Jesus down from the cross. The Late Renaissance church houses the religious monument within the first chapel to the right of its entrance. There ...

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