Joseph carries a flask of wine. Zacharias waits in the doorway; After a lifetime of barrenness, Elizabeth and Zacharias were blessed with child six months before the Annunciation to Mary; their child ...

(cf. Lk 1:41-45) Pope Paul VI in Marialis Cultus, #7, observes that in the "celebrations that commemorate salvific events in which the Blessed Virgin Mary was closely associated with her son” ... “the ...

Visit the homepage for more information. "Blest is she who trusted that the Lord's words to her would be fulfilled." Everything in the visitation scene is motion and excitement: Mary's haste, her ...