Intertwined within the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the acknowledgement of her as the “Mystical Rose,” for she is the ...

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates one of its greatest feasts – the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary – on April 7, Qahana.am reports. In the Gospel of Luke we learn that the Angel Gabriel ...

According to some biblical sources, John and Mary later moved to Ephesus, where she lived under his protection. One solid proof of John’s obedience is the House of the Virgin Mary (Meryem Ana ...

Votive candles warm tables during the winter. A mural of St. Anne embracing the Virgin Mary as a child looks over customers eating. Small devotional cards behind the register feature the Santo ...

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Kiki Smith: Unfolding the Body, An Exhibition of the Work in Paper, October 3 - November 15, 1992, and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, ...

One piece of Tolkien lore that last year’s expanded edition of The Letters of J R R Tolkien made abundantly clear was quite how highly the author regarded himself as a poet. In 1916, aged twenty-four, ...

Claims of appearances of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been common in Catholicism. And now they’re going to get a closer look – but on a worldwide scale. The Pontificia Academia Mariana ...