In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a humble Native American at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of what is now Mexico City. She identified herself as the ever Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the True ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe. | Sacred Heart Cathedral Knoxville via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). Dear mother, we love you. We thank you for your promise to help us in our need.

EXCLUSIVE: Motorsports and basketball. Indianapolis has become a mecca for those activities as the home of the Indy 500 and the Pacers (who came up just short of winning the NBA crown this year). In ...

A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...

Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary grew up particularly in the post-Tridentine era, promoted especially by St. John ...

The ceiling of the shrine shows St. Laszlo and Our Lady, one of the Marian markers with a view of pilgrims, and the shrine ...

The Mary Rose, a carrack-style, four-masted sailing ship, was King Henry VIII's favorite naval vessel. It sank in 1545, under still-mysterious circumstances, and lay on the bottom of the Solent ...

Mary may have come into contact with Jesus because of his healing powers. “Seven demons had gone out of her,” says Luke (Luke 8:2). Some scholars believe that the Magdalene may be the same ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

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