Friend researched the sixteen Vatican-approved Marian-apparition sites—places where the Virgin Mary has been deemed ... and she felt like an early landscape photographer, lugging her equipment ...

Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she appears in only a handful of pages in the Gospels. Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of ...

Twenty-seven years ago today, a rainbow-tinged image of what appeared to be the Virgin Mary covered the side of a financial building in Clearwater, Florida. She showed up on Dec. 17, 1996 ...