The beginning of the devotion is linked to an episode that occurred in the middle of the fifteenth century; it was an Easter Monday, the…
Let us tell the story of how the Holy Ring of the Virgin was brought in the city of Perugia, and … It is the…
In the Bible, Mary is seen at the foot of the Cross, where the dying Jesus gives her as mother to “the disciple whom he…
The shrine complex of Our Lady of Sorrows overlooks the rolling farmland west of St. Louis. This peaceful place is home to a bewildering array…
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Oak (Rovere) occupies the remains of an ancient oak grove sacred to Diana. The church was dedicated to…
La storia racconta che nel 1672 la Beata Vergine disse a un pastorello che desiderava essere venerata in un certo luogo nella faggeta vicino a…
The story goes that in 1672 the Blessed Virgin told a shepherd boy that she wished to be venerated at a certain place in the…
St. John Damascene, a devout Christian, was head chancellor to the Caliph of Damascus in 726 when the Byzantine Emperor Leo issued his first iconoclastic…
The image was very revered and carried the strange name “of the Standard” because the standards of weights and measures were kept close by. In…
