Author Mary Shelley wrote the classic novel "Frankenstein" when she was just 18, but despite her early literary success, she lived a life full of loss. Her mother, groundbreaking feminist writer ...

The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, ... Grave Nimis (1483) Pope Paul III, Council of Trent (1546), Decree on Original Sin; Pope St. Pius V, Bull Ex Omnibus Afflictionibus, (1567) ...

Almost certainly, historic Christian devotion to the Virgin Mary began in Egypt, which is home to countless churches dedicated to her and icons celebrating her. Egyptians point proudly to many sites ...

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.

(The Conversation) — 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.

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 ...

For example, the devotional figure of Mary as the “Lady of All Nations,” a title associated with the visions of Dutch woman Ida Peerdeman, who claimed to have sighted the Virgin 56 times ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. The statue of Mary itself is to be 133.2-feet high, sitting atop a pedestal in the form of a 50-foot-high crown.

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 ...