Virgin Mary at center of Catholic, Orthodox Christian celebrations on Tuesday Tuesday’s Feast of the Assumption, which honors Mary, became dogma in 1950 August 12, 2023 at 2:47 a.m.

Since its creation in 1499, Michelangelo's Pietà has inspired emotion, faith, and imitation through its elegant depiction of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Yet few know the secrets that are ...

The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio Y. Giovanna Dellorto Sunday 25 May 2025 06:07 BST ...

Blair Gordy Piras is a sacred artist from Louisiana. In 2017, she served as the first artist in residence at Franciscan University of Steubenville, her alma mater. Her art has been featured in ...

In 2010, art historian and curator Matteo Gianeselli recognized similarities between the newly attributed Virgin Mary painting and another work from the Renaissance artist's studio.

If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th-century CE by some of the earliest Christians to arrive ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. The statue of Mary itself is to be 133.2-feet high, sitting atop a pedestal in the form of a 50-foot-high crown.

SHERLOCK: The story goes that the Virgin Mary appeared to an aristocrat, Giovanni, and to Pope Liberius in a dream, asking for a church in her honor, in a location that would be miraculously revealed.