By the Middle Ages this idea was in the works, and St. Bernard in the twelfth century ... influenced strongly by J-J Olier, invoked Mary as the model of the priest and honored her as Virgo sacerdos, ...

Later, St. Bernard praised the Virgin Mary as "the violet of humility, the lily of chastity, the rose of charity, the Balm of Gilead, and the golden gillyflower of heaven." Christians, who saw these ...

In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen although without a doubt ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion ... “May the Virgin Mary bless / Us with her holy offspring.” ...

St. Justin Martyr, "Dialogue with Trypho the Jew," c. 155 A.D. "Those Gnostics, therefore, who allege that He took nothing from the Virgin do greatly err.... For why did He come down into Mary if ...

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 ...

If any one day can attract more meanings than one day can handle, May Day has! Few would think of it as a religious holiday, not just because it’s not a day off in our country, but rather ...

In addition to the building of Dublin’s Whitefriar St. church, Our Lady of Mount St. Carmel, in 1826, Spratt also founded St ...

Notre Dame Prep spent one week at No 1 before losing to St. Bernard on Jan. 26. New London returned to the top 10 after the victory over St. Bernard. The Whalers, who are ranked 10th, were the ...

THE LAST TWO ‘RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE EXHIBITIONS’ I reported on turned out to be not very Avant-Garde at all: a show in Mantua in 2013 (which had at least a handful of works that might have been ...

The Deacons of the Diocese of Birmingham, along with their wives, gathered for their annual retreat at St. Bernard Abbey, ...

A life-size replica of the Shroud of Turin is scheduled to be on public display in August at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fargo.