Gisella Cardia purchased a statue of the Virgin Mary at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Medjugorje, where thousands of religious ...

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 ...

The statue of the Virgin Mary that has kept watch over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers for more than a ...

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: ...

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.

However, the statue of the Virgin Mary itself will be more than 40 metres ... of Częstochowa and the miraculous image of the Black Madonna, there is a 14-metre-high statue of Saint John Paul ...