The holy icon of the Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Church in Vermio in northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus and a poignant reminder of the Greek Genocide. According to ...

A million people make wilderness pilgrimage to honour 13th-century Virgin Mary icon - The romería del Rocío has grown into ...

In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the ...

a time for another traditional daily invocation to the Virgin Mary. Two mothers who went to morning Mass on a recent weekday at the Genazzano chapel — where the Mary icon stands — said they ...

Different icons, common prayers How Mary is represented, however, varies greatly across time and places, Harris added. There are “Black” Virgin Marys — dark-skinned paintings and statues ...

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GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking ... That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around the world, whose ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the ...