The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful ...

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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 ...

The Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, but the book never explicitly says when the Son of God was born. Though many Christians celebrate the Messiah's birthday on December 25th, experts agree he ...

He went there principally to pray to the Salus Populi Romani, health or protectress of the Roman people in Latin, a painting on cedar wood that shows the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. This icon was ...

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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 ...

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.