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

Their faces, hats and flamenco dresses caked in dust, hundreds of pilgrims gathered around an ox-driven carriage with their ...

After the Virgin Mary incident, which lasted about 10 minutes, believers braved the scorching sun to observe the Mass, which ...

Pilgrims, their faces and vibrant flamenco dresses coated in dust, congregated around an ox-driven carriage carrying the icon ...

Students at St. de Chantal Academy of the Visitation at Elfindale participate in a traditional Catholic devotion to Mary known as the May Procession in this 1953 photo. Under the instruction of ...

The Medieval city of Bruges, Belgium, marked a centuries-old tradition with veneration of the UNESCO-honored Holy Blood ...

The Virgin Mary, patroness of Bruges, graces more than 300 street corners throughout the city with her image and is paid tribute in the procession. | Thomas P. Reiter In 2009, UNESCO added the ...

A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as The Virgin ... The statue’s return began with a torchlit procession from the forecourt of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois Church.

During the annual May Procession, students would walk through the grounds to the chapel, where a statue of the Virgin Mary would be crowned with a garland of flowers. In this photograph ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...