The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary has been subjected to DNA tests after a woman claimed that the ceramic sculpture 'cried blood'.

The Dark Virgin: The Book of Our Lady of Guadalupe ... A narrative account, written in a devotional style, of the appearances of the Virgin Mary and the subsequent history of the Image of Guadalupe.

Black Madonna is a term used to describe images of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus depicted with dark skin. The Black Madonna, or Black Virgin, challenges the 'accepted' characteristics and ...

155 And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos , the "Ever-virgin". 156 500 Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and ...