According to the Guardian, what was lying there in the river by Brey’s feet was a statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus ... famous Camino de Santiago, a Medieval Christian pilgrimage route ...

The statue references the theological concept of Sedes Sapientiae, the Throne of Wisdom, characteristic of early medieval liturgy. It symbolizes the idea of Mary as the throne for the Incarnated Logos ...

She reflects an elevated status reinforced by the way early Christian and medieval authors wrote about her miraculous virginal pregnancy, announced through angelic revelation. Accordingly, this small ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It's believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...

A "mystic" who conned hundreds of pilgrims with a fake blood weeping statue of Mary is facing a trial after she was caught in a lie by a DNA test. Gisella Cardia claimed to have been receiving ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The religious shrine in Poland has been mocked after the botched restoration left ...

AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding tears, leaving the sisters and nuns at a Catholic church here without an explanation. From the ...

When the extraordinary legend of Saint Mary was first translated into Old English from Latin by an unknown author just over a millennium ago, it became the medieval equivalent of a blockbuster ...

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people ...