Still to be found in one of the local churches of the Diocese is the statue known as the Clonfert Madonna. It is a beautiful image of the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus held in her arms. Although ...

The Black Madonna, or Black Virgin, challenges the 'accepted' characteristics and symbolism of the traditional fair-skinned Virgin Mary—a highly contentious issue in some quarters of the ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

In the Polish village of Konotopa, near Toruń, the construction has begun of a Virgin Mary statue that will measure more than ...

Beyond general style, the genre of the statue is certainly that of an 'enthroned virgin', typical of the earliest icons of Mary. On behalf of Madonna and Child representations, Stephen Benko notes: ...

Or the Shrine Madonna of Klonówka? And did you know that the oldest Polish religious statue is also a figure of the Virgin Mary? Meet five incredible Polish Madonnas. International Gothic, a period of ...

Material Girl was released as a single on 23 January 1985 - 40 years ago to the day. But while this is one of her best-known and best-loved songs, Madonna has mixed feelings about it.