May is Mary’s month. Let’s begin it this year by looking at her place in the classic Christian confessions of faith, the ...

A toddler dressed as Easter angel descended from a balcony and adorably called out to her mum for help reaching a statue of ...

The Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, but the book never explicitly says when the Son of God was born. Though many ...

The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work ... mother clutching her sick seven-week-old baby, Dieguito, born with a kidney ...

The basilica contains the Salus Populi Romani, a celebrated oil painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, a favoured point of veneration in the church of Pope Francis. Pope Francis made more ...

He went there principally to pray to the Salus Populi Romani, health or protectress of the Roman people in Latin, a painting ...

The basilica holds some of the Church's most important relics, including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus, attributed to Saint Luke. It also holds pieces of wood believed to have ...

The basilica holds some of the Church's most important relics, including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus attributed to Saint Luke. For Catholics, it also holds pieces of wood ...

a site he visited over 100 times during his papacy to pray before the icon of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. This makes Francis the first pope in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican.

St. Mary Major is one of the four papal basilicas in Rome — the “major” refers not to the Virgin Mary but to ... Joseph and the baby Jesus, and the Franciscans take the Christ child ...