Also in May, a third icon of the Virgin Mary - this one, too, belonging to Koulis ... Lauren Bove, 33, of Huntington, says she was blessed with a miracle in 2006, ...

The mosaic, based on an 18th-century painting by Italian artist Pietro Bianchi, depicts St. John Chrysostom St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Anthony of Padua venerating the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Here are seven of the Virgin Mary’s most popular titles: Our Lady of Fátima The Blessed Mother received this title when she appeared to three shepherd children in the small village of Fátima ...

On the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ... Pope Julius III was the first pope to give a Golden Rose to the Salus Populi Romani icon in St. Mary Major in 1551.

Indeed, that maternal bond between the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus has resonated so deeply across the centuries that depicting the blessed intimacy of the first Noel has become an integral part ...

All this laid the foundation that enabled Blessed Paul VI, at the conclusion of the Third Session of the Second Vatican Council, Nov. 21, 1964, to declare the Blessed Virgin Mary as “Mother of ...

In one of the icons in the Marian Library, for example, by Slovenian artist Mikuláš Klimčák, Mary stands above the entire world while angels hold a banner reading “Freedom.” Mary the Woman ...

Vatican City, May 29, 2023 / 10:30 am. To honor the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Vatican offers a special Marian pilgrimage within St. Peter’s Basilica each Saturday afternoon during the month of May.