For two thousand years, Mary—the mother of Jesus—has been honored in cathedrals, hymns, and paintings as the Virgin Mother of ...

There’s a rather fruitless argument about who brought about the early Renaissance in Western art. Martin Gayford, the art ...

Tehran's new station highlights Iran's Christian heritage and has drawn widespread attention and discussion online.

The three most important Solemnities on the Church’s calendar (and the three most important mysteries in her life) are Easter, Christmas and Pentecost. Without Easter, people should all pack up and go ...

To honor the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Vatican offers a special Marian pilgrimage within St. Peter’s Basilica each Saturday afternoon during the month of May. The Marian itinerary brings pilgrims from ...

For religious Christians, Christmas is all about Jesus Christ. But his mother Mary was busy, too, giving birth. Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she ...

This painting is quite sketchy. A copy of famous artwork was botched beyond recognition during a repair job — in a case that could change laws covering restoration work in Spain. An anonymous art ...

The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary A Reflection for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary, deserving of all praise; from you rose the ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has become the newest in a long line of botched art restorations in Spain. Murillo's painting was reportedly ...

The "restored" painting may be a copy of this 17th-century work by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Photo by Art Media / Print Collector / Getty Images In the past decade, tales of art “restorations” gone ...

A congregation of churchgoers in Mexico may have borne witness to a real-life miracle… or did they? Visitors were shocked and moved when a statue of the Virgin Mary appeared to shed real tears. The ...