It may never be possible to ascertain for certain whether Mary Shelley (nee Godwin) actually had sex with her husband-to-be, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, on or near her mother's grave.

Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles — shows how she was portrayed by artists in the Middle Ages, before ...

A Virgin Mary statue is being built in Poland and it may be the world's tallest religious statue once construction is completed. The build will stand nearly 200 feet.

On Dec. 8, 1854, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was solemnly defined and proclaimed by Pope Pius IX as follows: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her ...

A Virgin Mary statue burst into flames Friday during an Easter parade in Vélez-Málaga, Spain injuring two people and damaging a good portion of the statue, reports Jam Press.

In many Catholic and Orthodox countries, the most visible face of faith is commonly the Virgin Mary (think of Mexico’s ubiquitous Virgin of Guadalupe). Sur­prisingly—and counterintuitively—Mary is ...

Although there is no explicit description of Mary’s death and resurrection in the New Testament, for nearly two millennia pilgrims have venerated Mary’s Tomb.

Church-goers in Mexico claimed to have witnessed a miracle after spotting a statue of the Virgin Mary that appeared to have real tears rolling down her cheeks.

Construction is underway on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland, set to be the tallest of its kind. The statue will stand on a 50-foot crown pedestal near the existing ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe commemorates when the Virgin Mary appeared before Juan Diego, an indigenous Mexican farmer, in 1531.

I write regarding the May 18 article “Why popes and other Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary.” The Associated Press article in the Maine Sunday Telegram, about the Virgin Mary, gave a good ...

(The Conversation) — The Vatican plans to set up an ‘observatory’ to investigate apparitions of the Virgin Mary. A scholar of global Christianity explains why this is a major shift in how ...