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Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage ...
The Mary Kathleen uranium mine was commissioned in 1956. The first commercial shipment of concentrates was produced in 1963, when the contract for 4,082 tonnes of uranium oxide to the United Kingdom ...
Pope Leo XIV brings flowers to set under a Marian fresco in the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzano, Italy, southeast of Rome, May 10, 2025. The shrine, with a famous image of Mary, is run ...
The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most ...
Another of Francis's favourite images, Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner's Mary, Untier of Knots (around 1700), was a revelation to many Catholics, one that he popularised first in Argentina and ...
Loughville, Lahinch Road, Ennis, Clare. Formerly of Ballygriffey South, Ruan, Co. Clare. Mary passed away peacefully at Ennis Nursing Home, surrounded by her loving family. Predeceased by her husband ...
Jessica Mendoza: That day in February, Francis reviewed documents underneath a cherished painting depicting Mary, Undoer of Knots. In it, the Virgin Mary is shown unraveling a long ribbon.
For over a decade, Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet. Now, in the final weeks of his life, advisers were filtering in and out of his austere ...
If, like me, you’re in need of some new spring outfit ideas then you’re in luck as Queen Mary of Denmark has just re-ignited my love of tailoring. Blazers, smart trousers and waistcoats might seem ...