The autonomous territory of Galicia is also part of the famous Camino de Santiago, a Medieval Christian pilgrimage ... But the mystery behind the Virgin Mary’s tragic end will remain unknown ...

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

Praying for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and being devoted ... In the second millennium, beginning in the 12th century, says medieval historian Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London ...

Art historian Elina Gertsman, PhD, is a self-described master of persistence, a talent she used often as she searched for medieval Virgin Mary statues once so controversial that an 18th-century pope ...

The Mary's Gardens movement was founded by John S. Stokes Jr. in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to research the hundreds of flowers named in medieval times as symbols of the life, mysteries and ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

Medieval commentators interpreted this ancient erotic love song to be an allegory of the Virgin Mary, the sealed garden into which the Holy Spirit entered at the Annunciation. Adoration of the Lamb, ...

However, medieval readers did ... also loves imperfect people… The Mary of Egypt tale has a very important lesson that you cannot teach with tales of virgin saints – which is God's grace.