Stacia English of Detroit, a mother who was baptized at the church 60 years ago, was one of the first people to place flowers on the grotto, praising the Virgin Mary. "This was just a glorious day ...

On the evening of Monday, July 22, a local woman, Kathy O’Mahony, had been out walking with her two daughters and stopped to say the rosary at the grotto, a shrine to the Virgin Mary, when they ...

The Frederick News-Post reports that the statue has been put back in place atop a 78-foot pedestal at the National Shrine Grotto on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg after ...

The grotto will be 16 feet wide and eight feet tall and a statue of the Virgin Mary will be placed in the middle. The project has been months in the making with the club first ordering the Virgin ...

Jul. 30—The mother that watched over Mount St. Mary's University for nearly six decades has returned to campus after spending a year away to undergo restoration. The statue of the Blessed Virgin ...

At the time, Corvallis’ St. Mary’s Catholic Church had just acquired a more traditional Madonna and Child statue and shelved the four-foot, 50-pound Madonna and Child statue.

A veiled and heavily robed Virgin Mary stands with hands reaching down and palms forward. The sculpture is mounted upon a short, pedestal-like base inside a limestone grotto with a concrete base. A ...

The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes was taken down July 7, 2021, after it was discovered that her interior armature was worn out by age and ...

Ellie O’Byrne revisits one of county Cork’s strangest phenomena: a statue of the Virgin Mary that, in 1985, drew enormous crowds because witnesses believed they had seen it moving ...