ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the ...

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Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

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The U.K. government has temporarily barred the export of a $13.5 million Botticelli, hoping to save the rare early work for ...

As the cardinals gaze up at the ceiling, they will feel the power of the “Creation of Adam,” one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance ... and fidelity to Jesus Christ and ...

She had been an early convert: we are told that Jesus exorcised her of “seven ... apparently in bliss. Mary Magdalene’s ecstasy was a familiar theme in Medieval/ Renaissance painting, which usually ...

Increasingly experimental and sophisticated in their methods, the painters Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini and brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti paved the way for the great art of the ...

Before and after every foreign trip, Francis made it a ritual to go to the basilica to pray before the Byzantine-style painting that features an image of Mary in a blue robe holding the baby Jesus ...