The thrust of chapters one and two of Luke's Gospel is not simply a family event between Elizabeth and Mary. The Visitation is an event of salvation history. Elizabeth, a model of the Old Testament, ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...

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 ...

Christians are called to follow Mary's example by responding to God's love with action, reaching out to others instead of withdrawing from the world.

"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 greeting to Elizabeth, John's leaping for joy ...

During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis reflects on the mystery of the Visitation, and urges the faithful to follow ...

Over 400 after her death, newly decoded letters between Mary Queen of Scots and the French ambassador to England reveal her thoughts from when her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, held her captive. A statue ...