On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan ’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God. In a ...

That’s just three of a myriad Virgin ... holding the baby Jesus, as in the Genazzano 15th century painting, a close-up of the two faces with Jesus’ fingers holding his mother’s neck. Mary ...

That’s just three of a myriad Virgin ... holding the baby Jesus, as in the Genazzano 15th century painting, a close-up of the two faces with Jesus' fingers holding his mother’s neck. Mary ...

Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis visited St. Mary Major basilica — with its colonnades of cipollino marble and intricate statues ... shows the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.

Throughout his papacy, Francis went there to pray to an icon of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. In death ... of Cipollino marble and intricate statues, has stood sentinel.