Levine adds, “She can be the grieving mother, the young virgin, the goddess figure. Just as Jesus is the ideal man, Mary is the ideal woman.” During the Reformation (1517-1648), the idea of ...

The dogma states that "Mary, Immaculate Mother of God ever Virgin, after finishing the course of her life on earth, was taken up in body and soul to heavenly glory." This definition as well as ...

This delicately ornamented sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, as a figure relevant to both the spiritual and the secular realms. She stands in a protective, maternal pose, her ...

The only reminder one woman has of her birth parents is a medallion of the Virgin Mary that was attached to her diaper when she was presented from a home for unwed mothers to her adoptive parents.

As Mary is the Mother of Christ, and Christ is head of ... and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church's model of faith and charity.

Roughly 100 Catholics from across the county paraded down Worth Avenue, singing hymns and reciting prayers in veneration of the Virgin Mary.