Festivities began March 9 with a vigil Mass at the parish to commence the March 10–18 novena leading up to the feast day ...

In Pakistan, the Christian minority observes Lent according to its own traditions. This year, its concurrence with Ramadan ...

This solid gold exhibition celebrates the astonishing period 1300-1350 in the Italian city of Siena, which matched opulence, spirituality and extravagance ...

And it had a very big shot as its patron: Florence had St John the Baptist, who was big, but the Sienese had the Virgin Mary herself ... clutching her veil – an image of which there are several ...

the Virgin Mary appears head-to-toe in Yves Saint Laurent, dressed in brocade fabric and a gold-embroidered veil. For 35 years, these devotees have helped adorn her in the delicate trousseau ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

The pope’s face is covered by a white silk veil, and he is buried with a bag ... often visited to pray in front of an icon of the Virgin Mary. Within 15 to 20 days of the pope’s death, the ...

Might they be able to prophesy if they wore a veil? These agonised questions from the first years ... and the image of the Pietà, in which the Virgin Mary cradles the mutilated body of her dead son, ...