where the Virgin – usually at prayer – finds herself surprised by the angel. About the year 1400, however, a new version of the Annunciation scene suddenly appeared in European paintings, which ...

Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith ... [the feast of] The Annunciation to the holy Mother of God ...

In the New Testament Mary speaks only four times, beginning with the Annunciation ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work ...

8 – Our Lady of Prompt Succor (diocese of New Orleans) Feb. 2 – The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Feb. 11 – The Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes Mar. 25 – The Annunciation of the Blessed ...

Jakarta. Former Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri presented a painting of the Virgin Mary to Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on Friday afternoon. The painting depicted ...

Wall paintings were also points of meditation and devotion, which existed to reinforce the words delivered from the pulpit.

The newly uncovered painting depicts a motif that was popular in the late Middle Ages. In the artwork, the Archangel Gabriel drives a unicorn into a closed garden and into the lap ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction ... with a prayer running across both panels: “May the Virgin Mary bless / Us with her holy offspring.” “You can actually ...

St. John brought people to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly about their Heart, the sign of the love God shows for us and the communion to which we are called. To offer them ...

Her latest book published by Word on Fire is The Mary Pages: An Atheist’s Journey to the Mother of God. Although raised in an atheist household, as a child she saw images of the Blessed Virgin ...

In most Christian churches across the West, the Virgin Mary is portrayed with light skin, much like her son Jesus Christ. But an estimated 400 to 500 versions of the Madonna portray her with dark skin ...

On the surface, Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels appears to be another typical Renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.