Some 10 years later, children from St. Michael’s Parish, whose parents were ill or had died from deadly epidemics, were brought to Staten Island to be cared for by the Presentation Sisters in an ...

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This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding tears, leaving the sisters and nuns at a Catholic church here without an explanation. From the ...