Built on the site of a pagan temple of Cybele, Saint Mary Major preserves the basilica’s floor plan and the early Christian structure. It is the largest of Rome’s eighty Marian churches ...

Hallowed ground – a Baha’i house of worship in Samoa, a Zoroastrian tower in Yazd, a Vodou temple in Benin ... like centrepiece, Virgin Mary and St Simon the Tanner Cathedral.

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

OT 433] Only after the destruction of the Temple and debates with Christians ... OT 433] In the mid-2nd century, St. Justin Martyr in his Dialogue With Trypho commented on the difference between ...

Photo by Berthold Werner via Wikimedia Commons Revered by Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Coptic ... of Mary, Gabriel and the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Above them is a bronze statue of ...

Mr Martin pushed back against claims by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald that the Government ... within the orthopaedic department in Temple St Hospital and problems with interpersonal ...

Portraits of Jesus, from Roman times to the present FIRST ROW (from left to right): 1) Mary, the Child Jesus and a Prophet, 3rd century fresco, Catacombs of Rome; 2) 6th century, St. Catherine ...

Three diocesan women — May Respicio of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, Laura Voyatzis of St. James Church in Falls Church and Judy Best of the Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria ... to ...

A white rose is placed on the tomb of Pope Francis inside St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP ...