But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked in the desert, Saint Mary of Egypt became a wise and virtuous teacher of Christian scripture – or so 11th Century readers were ...

The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt. (photo credit: Thomas Hawk. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and ...

This was why my father wanted to take me to St. Gerasimos, so that I could hear the story of Zosimas and Mary of Egypt directly from the monks. We never made it. My dad’s health continued to ...

Mary appeared to the husband in a dream ... Leading the opposition to the Nestorian heresy was St. Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt. Cyril helped to clarify the church's understanding ...

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica, in a break with tradition and sign of humility. After his funeral on Saturday, Pope Francis will not be buried in ...

but in the St Mary Major Basilica across town. This reflects his veneration of an icon of the Virgin Mary that is located there, the Salus Populi Romani (Salvation of the People of Rome).