The Virgin of La Macarena is one of Spain 's most famed Catholic effigies, and many Spaniards travel south every year to catch a glimpse of the wooden figure during the city's Holy Week parades.

PARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame cathedral Friday evening, five years after surviving the devastating 2019 ...

PARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame cathedral Friday evening, five years after surviving the ...

Some of those original “seers” have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary sends them messages. By some counts, the Virgin Mary has appeared to the ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported "apparitions" of the Virgin Mary in an otherwise ...

The church commissioned artist Felix Pedroncelli to make the statue back in 1999. He used metal and fiber cement to form the Virgin Mary. Since then, it has been on the front steps of the church.

The centerpiece of the garden includes the statue of Mary with the three visionaries -- Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, St. Jacinta and St. Francisco Marto -- kneeling in prayer before her.

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Critics of the statue have repeatedly characterized it as a graven pagan image, while other defenders of it initially characterized it as an indigenous statue of the Virgin Mary. A Vatican ...