Although raised in an atheist household, as a child she saw images of the Blessed Virgin Mary — and these were ... in a kind of pagan sense, an essential part of my feminist, New Age outlook.

According to superstition, if Phil comes out of his burrow on Groundhog Day and sees his shadow, it will scare him enough ...

The carnation is one of January's birth flowers, ushering in the year with its slightly spicy scent and color variations.

Virgin Prunes' debut album marked them as a unique force in Irish music, taking influence from the punk scene, avant-gardists ...

Many Christian holidays we observe today are based on pagan holidays that were so ingrained ... It was associated with the Virgin Mary originally. The Lughnasa festival celebrated the beginning ...

A: Opinions hostile to Mary, to Marian devotion and doctrine, frequently refer to similarities between the Incarnation of Jesus and pagan mythologies of immaculate conceptions and virgin births in ...

This Marian shrine, however, had been preceded on Tepeyac hill by the pagan temple honoring the earth and fertility ... Spain is justified solely on the ground that it allowed the Virgin Mary to ...

It's the perfect time to enjoy delicious, golden crepes and pancakes. While this gourmet ritual is eagerly awaited, few ...

Exciting hotel openings in Turks & Caicos, the British Virgin Islands ... such as champagne sabering and a signature Bloody Mary. St. Regis is also expanding in the Dominican Republic, with ...

If any one day can attract more meanings than one day can handle, May Day has! Few would think of it as a religious holiday, not just because it’s not a day off in our country, but rather ...

Eventually, these pagan traditions merged with Christianity ... Candlemas is the commemoration of the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple.

Its crypt, which looks and feels like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, has a statue of a Black Virgin Mary and child on ... the ruins of a millennia-old pagan temple dedicated to the ...