But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

151.5 x 84 cm. (59.6 x 33.1 in.) The present painting relates to both Northern and Spanish painting traditions of the fifteenth century. The work depicts the Virgin in a grand golden halo with ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

The Ampulla was made for Charles II's coronation, but its shape harks back to an earlier version and a legend that the Virgin Mary appeared to St Thomas a Becket in the 12th Century and gave him a ...

12, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The feast was officially instituted by Pope Innocent XI, and the celebration dates back to the early ...

And he had something better — a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Answering the pleas, Sobieski marched his army toward Vienna for a decisive showdown. Pope Innocent XI requested that ...

His daily conversation with the Virgin Mary has begun ... generations will call me blessed.” Indeed they have. Yet clues about her life are elusive. Scholars of Mary must take what they can ...

Some of those original “seers” have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary sends them messages. As a result, Medjugorje has become a major European ...

Son of God and son of the Blessed Virgin Mary. What would Jesus think of that chant? A chant that, in effect, rejects sacred scripture’s revelation of God’s plan of salvation through the ...

The cardinal continued that "before any attempt to attribute to Elenita de Jesús the identity of the Lord, or of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the judgment cannot be other than 'constant de non ...

Both St. Peter’s Church, 3655 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain, and Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 418 W. 15th St. in Lorain, have been around for over a century. Still, Nativity of the ...

It is flown on most Church Festivals, such as the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Christmas Day. This bears the coat of arms of Westminster Abbey, and is flown during a State Visit on the day ...