Metal Detectorist Stumbled on an Oval Gold Ring Depicting Virgin Mary Holding Baby Jesus From 15th Century For most metal ...

The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work ... her god has divine power. One theory holds that in Nahuatl, the word “Mexico ...

The controversial item is an icon of Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus, who is depicted only as a black outline. "It was supposed to symbolize the ‘loss’ of Ukrainian children in the ...

"Though still a virgin she carried ... both flesh and spirit....both of Mary and of God." St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle To The Ephesians," c. 105 A.D. "[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so ...

Although never explicated in detail, the Catholic Church holds as dogma ... as mother of her Son, Jesus Christ. Vatican II reiterated the teaching about Mary, the Ever-Virgin, by stating that ...