The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...

This delicately ornamented sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, as a figure relevant to both the spiritual and the secular realms. She stands in a protective, maternal pose, her ...

The controversial item is an icon of Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus, who is depicted only as a black outline. "It was supposed to symbolize the ‘loss’ of Ukrainian children in the ...

"Though still a virgin she carried ... both flesh and spirit....both of Mary and of God." St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle To The Ephesians," c. 105 A.D. "[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so ...

Paco Rodríguez/Voz de GaliciaA fisherman came across a 700-year-old religious sculpture of the Virgin Mary and child in the ...

Images of Mary and Christ are plentiful, as are images of them sitting in a rose garden. Since most of the population from ...

Children, families and the faithful everywhere are invited to follow Manchester Bishop Peter Libasci in a 33-day journey ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

Historically, devotion to the Heart of Mary grew up in parallel, but at a lesser intensity than that of devotion to the Heart of Jesus ... to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly ...

The Virgin Mary has been given yellow skin and giant white eyes, making her look like a poorly-drawn character from the Simpsons. Jesus has also been painted with the same alarming shade of yellow ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The religious shrine in Poland has been mocked after the botched restoration left ...