Different icons, common prayers How Mary is represented, however, varies greatly across time and places, Harris added. There are "Black" Virgin Marys -- dark-skinned paintings and statues like ...

Tens of thousands of pilgrims have descended on the tiny Spanish village of El Rocío to take part in riotously colorful and ...

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

Venice (Italy) and Bilbao, Madrid (Spain).Current solo exhibitions Two of these are dedicated solo exhibitions, like “Painted Gold: El Greco and the Art Between Crete and Venice” and “El Greco. Santo ...

Security video caught a person knocking the head off of a statue depicting the Virgin Mary early Thursday morning at a Wichita clinic that offers free healthcare to people who can’t afford it.

Pilgrims, their faces and vibrant flamenco dresses coated in dust, congregated around an ox-driven carriage carrying the icon of the Virgin Mary ... from the hamlet of El Rocío, to pray the ...

How Mary is represented, however, varies greatly across time and places, Harris added. There are “Black” Virgin Marys — dark-skinned paintings and statues like Brazil’s much beloved Virgin ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking ... That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around the world, whose ...

Artist Mary Bryant says her work has come full circle in recent years. “I’ve come back to my roots of representing in a more realistic manner of nature,” said Bryant, whose work is the ...

Yankton Dakota artist Mary Sully opened a solo exhibition at the Met Museum in New York last summer, and right now she has a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Not bad for a ...