The beautiful Ave Maria by Rheinberger is written for women's choir and organ. "Hail Mary, full of grace."

The miraculous image of Our Lady in Czestochowa, Poland, is believed to have been created by St. John sometime after the Crucifixion.

Fr. Scott A. Haynes Among the oldest relics of Christendom that still survive today are the True Cross of Christ, the Spear of Longinus,...

St. Juvenal explained to the Emperor Marcian the teaching about Mary's Assumption.

Virgin Mary wears a black belt around her waist – for the Aztecs people, this was an indication of pregnancy.

As St. Francis entered the gates of the Portuniuncula Church, St. Francis beheld Our Lord and Our Lady surrounded by a multitude of angels.

St. Anne, barren for years, prayed for a child. When God finally gave her Mary, as her bundle of joy, St. Anne presented Mary in the Temple.

When the apostles went into the uttermost parts of the world to preach the good news, St. James went to Gallaecia or northern Spain.

"I, the Mother of Grace, shall descend on the Saturday after their death and whomsoever I shall find in Purgatory, I shall free..."

Queen of heaven, rejoice, alleluia. The Son you merited to bear, alleluia, Has risen as he said, alleluia. Pray to God for us, alleluia.

Christ has made us spiritual children of His Mother, and so she seeks out her children who have run away from the Father's house.

At Calvary, we gaze upon Jesus, the Man of Sorrows. But we also behold Mary, our Sorrowful Mother, because she shares His suffering.

Laetare Sunday is after the mid-point of Lent, when Holy Mother Church reminds us Easter is soon coming.

In studying the liturgical art for the important feasts of the Church year, one of the most impressive is the Icon of the Annunciation.

The Litany's titles set before us Mary's exalted privileges, her holiness of life, her amiability and the power of her heavenly intercession

Pope Pius VII wrote seven prayers to honor Our Lady of Sorrows in 1815 and to obtain the seven graces Mary promises.

The "Beautiful Lady" at Lourdes met Bernadette Soubirous, in a series of 18 events, and said: “Que soy era Immaculada Councepciou.”

Learn the miraculous story of the Virgin Mother's apparitions to St. Catherine Labouré, and of the Miraculous Medal we have receiv.

The Song of Bernadette tells the miraculous story of the Virgin Mary's appearances to St. Bernadette at Lourdes.

The old man in the Temple, Simeon, holds the infant Lord in his arms. He embraces the Christ Child in his arms.