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.

The basilica’s side doors were covered on the morning of March 31, and the two central doors will be covered in a few days, according to the shrine. Mosaics by alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik are ...

Devotion to Mary has always been a part of the Black Catholic experience, according to Stacy Williams, director of the ...

A shrine featuring figures of Mary and St. Bernadette is placed on a stone base on a small island in the middle of a lake. A standing figure of Mary is mounted atop the upper section of the base and a ...