Among the best-known Marian apparitions of recent centuries were the appearances of Our Lady to a French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes in southwestern France, near the Spanish border.

In the rural Green Bay woods in the 1850s, the Belgian immigrant Adele Brise fell to her knees in front of a golden-haired woman standing among the trees. Clad in a milky gown with a yellow sash tied ...

Pope Leo XIV led the Angelus prayer Dec. 8 from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on the occasion of the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. Addressing the faithful and pilgrims in ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, District of Columbia survey, 1993. Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C.," Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, pg. 333. Image on file. The information ...

Mary stands robed and hooded, her hands pressed together at her chest, her head lowered slightly. The sculpture is set within a decorated niche above building entrance. Administered by St. Mary's ...