According to legend, accepted by the church, it was in 1531 that the Virgin of Guadalupe spoke, in Nahuatl (the Aztec language), to Juan Diego, a baptized Indian ... to an icon of Mary on the ...

Torres said that the traditional Mexican icon of the Virgin Mary traces its origins to clothing. "Her story really started through a garment — on a tilma of a man supposedly called Juan Diego ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...