Years before narrowly surviving the Palisades Fire, the McGeagh family's Virgin Mary statue was spared from another major LA ...

Since then, Father Noguchi kept the "bombed" Mary in his own room in the Trappist Monastery where he prayed. He thought that the remains of the statue should go back to Urakami. So in 1975, the year ...

A California family's unshaken faith emerged in the form of a lone statue of The Virgin Mary — untouched by the relentless flames of southern California's wildfires — her resilience amid the ...

Now, around two centuries later, that mythic name has been brought to life with the installation of a towering Virgin Mary statue on the slopes of the mighty volcano. The 20-foot statue sits in ...

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people ...