‘A sure way of remaining united to Christ, as branches to a vine,’ said Benedict XVI, ‘is to have recourse to the intercession of Mary.’ “Christ the True Vine,” Early 17th Century, Collegiate Church ...

Christian flower symbolism, with origins in the Wisdom and Prophetic books of the Bible, was applied to Mary by the Church Fathers, as an extension of Isaiah's prophecy of the Virgin Mother of the ...

"And he came to her and said, 'Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!'" This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:28) — one of the three synoptic Gospels — and it's part of the story of ...

Mary, Mother of God: In Search of the Woman Who Changed History is the latest lavishly illustrated book by the team of Grzegorz Górny and Janusz Rosikon. Their other coffee-table-style books include ...