Festivities began March 9 with a vigil Mass at the parish to commence the March 10–18 novena leading up to the feast day ...

In Pakistan, the Christian minority observes Lent according to its own traditions. This year, its concurrence with Ramadan ...

This solid gold exhibition celebrates the astonishing period 1300-1350 in the Italian city of Siena, which matched opulence, spirituality and extravagance ...

And it had a very big shot as its patron: Florence had St John the Baptist, who was big, but the Sienese had the Virgin Mary herself ... clutching her veil – an image of which there are several ...

In the space of 100 years, Siena's artists redefined painting as an art form and laid the foundations for Renaissance.

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

More than 3 million visitors, pilgrims and tourists come each year to the Grotto of Massabielle, where the Virgin Mary appeared to ... She wears upon her head a veil which is also white.

Might they be able to prophesy if they wore a veil? These agonised questions from the first years ... and the image of the Pietà, in which the Virgin Mary cradles the mutilated body of her dead son, ...