My introduction to art happened in my hometown of Athy, Co Kildare. It was an age of belief; religion dominated everyday ...

At the helm for the past 45 years, Sister Merris Larkin is helping her students succeed in countless ways, while making sure ...

Sarah Worne and her husband bought the plot of land near Lostwithiel in October. The site included the barn which the couple ...

Many art historians see this as a standard ... Along with her Koran, she carries Christian medals of the Virgin Mary in her purse. In a small room in the back of the church Badr mingled with ...

Christians can be comfortable praying to Mary since she lives eternally as the handmaid of the Lord. She gives all praise to God.

It is the smell of burning candles and incense floating with the gentle breeze that greets you as you slowly climb the stone steps of the hillock leading to the historic Kadamattom St George Orthodox ...

Later, St. Bernard praised the Virgin Mary as "the violet of humility ... not reflect the actual plants or gardens of their time. Likewise, the Mary Gardens depicted in religious art of that period ...

Freed from the precision of the Byzantine line, Mary's drapery ... Duccio's painting of the Virgin and Child, it reveals a humanity that will shift people's perception of religious art — and ...

The work of former University of Virginia students comes together in “A Continuous Storyline: Four Decades of UVA Painters” ...

With admirable seriousness, Adrian Duncan explores themes of art, religion and decay in a deeply opaque novel about a sculptor looking for meaning ...

Susy Peterson says running St. Matthew’s Catholic School in Kalispell was truly her “dream job.” A longtime educator and ...

The artist called the eight-foot-tall painting of Jesus on the cross one of his "very best." The New Yorker called it “his ...