One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than ... and houses of ill repute. Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in song and poetry, popular and sacred.

making this shrine the most popular in the Catholic world after St. Peter’s Basilica at Vatican City. The Mexican faithful refer to her lovingly as La Morenita. In 1979 when Pope John Paul II visited ...

Several months had passed, and after receiving communion on the feast of Our Lady ... as a Shrine and miraculous place Today, around the grotto, a neo-Byzantine, three-level basilica was built.

In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen although without a doubt ...

On the first day of Lent, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., will host an exhibit on the Shroud of ...

Miracles at both shrines show how God uses simple elements — just as he did in Scripture — to bring healing and conversion.

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed that the Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine, which encompasses the village ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

Kayla Hui The Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is an important religious site in Mexico City. Construction for the first shrine built to honor the Virgin ...