A watershed moment in the monastery’s resurrection came on August 15, 2010, on the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Virgin ...

A boy receives Communion at the Jasna Góra Monastery, in Częstochowa, Poland. The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

During their meetings, Wolfgang and Father Rem would pray together and venerate the Virgin Mary. On the day of their last visit together, September 28th, 1615, Father Rem had been praying in the ...

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 ...

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finishes her meditation after a prayer service for the Coronation of the Virgin Mary. When she recently became ill, she asked—and was granted—permission to leave the Dominican Monastery of ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

trough and probably refers to the Virgin Mary life-giving spring, he added. During the Frankish rule, served as the seat of the Bishop of Paphos. Lampides added that the monastery was renovated by ...

Thus the Virgin would ... the monastery and sanctuary were restored in l833 and again in 1851, thanks especially to the Spanish Infantes, the Dukes of Montpensier. The patronal feast coincides with ...