Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at 88 after battling pneumonia and bronchitis; his cause of death was ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel ... His advent by the spotless and God-bearing (theotokos) Mary in the way of birth and growth, and the manner of His life and ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.

commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in Jerusalem. Before Mary's birth, her parents received a heavenly message that they would bear a child.

including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus attributed to Saint Luke. It also holds pieces of wood believed to have been from Jesus's crib. The basilica's website says recent studies ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

“Before Carlo’s birth, I was really caught up in the culture ... demonstrating his profound devotion to Jesus’ Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary: “The Virgin Mary is the only woman in ...

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather than the Vatican is shining a spotlight on the 5th-century basilica dedicated ...

He then says the new pope’s birth name and the name he has chosen ... saying he wanted to be near his favourite icon of the Virgin Mary, the Salus Populi Romani, a Byzantine-style painting ...