Virgin Mary apparitions are said to be miracles. For this artist, they’re casualties of gentrification Artist Nico Avina holds his 7-1/2-foot-tall Virgin Mary holding an eviction notice.

Maricela Torres laid a bouquet of flowers before a life-size sculpture of the Virgin Mary and knelt to the ground at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. “I pray to her almost every ...

The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as “Our Lady of Lourdes,” following several apparitions reported in 1858. The Vatican recently announced its plan to set up an ...

The holy sculpture, from Mexico City, was unveiled Wednesday evening to hundreds of worshipers at the Shrine of Our Lady of ...

Vatican Rules Supposed Apparitions of Virgin Mary Near Rome ‘Not Supernatural’ The events reportedly began after the couple brought back an image of Our Lady of Peace from Medjugorje in 2014.

The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.

Thousands of faithful parishioners gathered in the northwest suburbs on Wednesday to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrim ...

The Irish and apparitions of the Virgin Mary have a long history If you want to know where the great change happened in Irish life and politics, you could start in 1985 in Ballinspittle.

386 major apparitions The Vatican gives primary responsibility for evaluating apparitions to local bishops. Wary of fraud, the church is generally reluctant even to investigate claims.

The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.

— Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico: An Indigenous Mexican man named Juan Diego reported several apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1531. For believers, the image of the Virgin that hangs in the ...