(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have ...

Levine adds, “She can be the grieving mother, the young virgin, the goddess figure. Just as Jesus is the ideal man, Mary is the ideal woman.” During the Reformation (1517-1648), the idea of ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

A small statue of the Virgin Mary with purportedly miraculous origins ... refer to Our Lady of Charity as "Ochun," a goddess of female sensuality and maternity, said the Associated Press.

But while the Parthenon was dedicated to the goddess upon its completion in ... later the Latin cathedral of Parthenos Maria, the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Athens. The Parthenon's function as ...

Popular Haitian representations of this spirit look exactly like the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, which is an ancient and famous icon of the Virgin Mary housed in the Jasna Góra Monastery in Poland ...

While Halloween has its origins in pagan and Christian traditions, Day of the Dead has indigenous roots as a celebration of ...

The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...

Some see it as glorifying Mary to the level of a goddess. Others believe that it ... "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege ...

Only in the remote mountain fastness of Nepal did the practice of glorifying prepubescent girls (in Nepali the word “kumari” means “virgin girl”) as living goddesses for years at a time ...

More than five million pilgrims from around the world visit this shrine to the Virgin Mary every year to drink ... that is worshipped by Hindus as a goddess. Bruce and the pilgrims travel on ...

Whether you’re a bona fide witch or just enjoy the witchy/new age aesthetic, here are the best places to shop for crystals, ...