The focus on Mary’s purity equated with bodily and sexual chastity sets the gold standard for Christian womanhood ...

A century on, what captures the imagination of Catholics is apparitions of Mother Mary to ordinary women and children ...

The Meditations on the Joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary Stephen of Sawley starts his treatise explaining ... How great was her happiness when she heard about Jesus' apparitions to His disciples, ...

Mary, the holy Virgin, Mary ... the dwelling-place of such an inhabitant!" Blessed Charles de Foucauld was born in 1858, the very year of the apparitions at Lourdes. Not far from his body ...

“Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations […], they are a people whom the Lord has blessed” (Is 61: ... daughter of this people is the Virgin Mary of Nazareth who, clothed ...

A procession of hundreds of people holding candles walked through the streets of Paris to bring a famed statue of the Virgin ...

A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as the “Virgin of Paris,” has returned to Notre Dame cathedral, five years after surviving the devastating fire of 2019 PARIS -- A ...

A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as the “Virgin of Paris,” has returned to Notre Dame cathedral, five years after surviving the devastating fire of 2019. A torchlit procession ...

PARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame cathedral Friday evening, five years after surviving the devastating 2019 ...

wrote of the white lily as the emblem of the Blessed Virgin; the white petals symbolized the purity of her body and the golden anthers the beauty of her soul. Later, St. Bernard praised the Virgin ...