Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

The Rosary of the Virgin Mary ... remains … a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness,’ wrote Pope St. John Paul II in ‘Rosarium Virginis Mariae.’ ...

One Mary, a myriad titles According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery of the incarnation of the ...

She’s either portrayed alone or, most often, holding the baby Jesus, as in the Genazzano ... Since the 19th century, May has been devoted to the Virgin Mary — though already in Greek and ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics ... She’s either portrayed alone or, most often, holding the baby Jesus, as in the Genazzano 15th century painting, a close-up of the ...