Carved from dark wood, the statue is an icon of Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. Had its supernatural story played out somewhere else ― such as Mexico, where a cloak bearing Mary’s ...

From the outset, none of them could account for the sacred mother’s weeping ... This may explain the Mary figurine’s facial resemblance to the Kannon statue in Buddhism.

ROME — Supernatural events like visions of the Virgin Mary and statues weeping tears of blood ... “I prefer the Madonna as mother, our mother, and not a woman who’s the head of a telegraphic ...

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people ...

Once described by experts as 'tall and slender', the Virgin Mary statue just outside the village ... It looks more like Bart Simpson than The Mother Mary,' said another. Yet others have likened ...

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, blessed a statue of “Mary, ...