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

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

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

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

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COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

On March 3, 2018, the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision that the Church celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role ... to the mystery of the cross, to the oblation of Christ in the ...

this did the virgin Mary set free through faith." [Against Heresies III 22:4] Jesus Christ as the New Adam corrected Adam's sin by His Cross, while Mary as the New Eve undid Eve's disobedience by ...

There are Black Madonnas, like Brazil’s beloved Virgin of Aparecida ... a liturgy professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Mary’s enduring draw lies in her identity as a ...

It’s also why the rosary is one of the most widely used prayers — including publicly for the pope — and why popular devotions to the Virgin Mary, including processions and festivals ...

An icon of the Virgin Mary — La Virgen del Rocío — has been venerated in this remote area since the Middle Ages. Today, dressed in their finest but caked in dust and sweat, crowds jostle to ...