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

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a river ford to reach the tiny hamlet of El Rocío in southern Spain for ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a ...

A million people make wilderness pilgrimage to honour 13th-century Virgin Mary icon - The romería del Rocío has grown into ...

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

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

One Mary, a myriad titles According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus ... Virgin Mary, including processions and festivals, are so central to Christianity, Falanga said. Different icons ...

There are Black Madonnas, like Brazil’s beloved Virgin of Aparecida. Some icons show Mary pregnant, others as an elderly woman. Most often, she appears with the infant Jesus—like in the 15th-century ...

According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery ... and statues like Brazil’s much beloved Virgin of Aparecida. In rare icons, she’s represented pregnant or as an ...