A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century ... Known locally as the "Bonne Mere" (Good Mother), she is 11.2 metres (36.7 feet) tall and her crown towers 225 metres ...

"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother along with Mary's sister and Mary Magdalane." Patience is a virtue too many of us forget in these internet times, and putting this statue back ...

A "mystic" who conned hundreds of pilgrims with a fake blood weeping statue of Mary is facing a trial after ... "I don’t know where she’s currently praying, but I know for a fact that she ...

A rosary, its beads the color of pearls, hangs from Mary’s clasped hands. “We are not just praying to the statue or whatever, the wood,” Kuresu said. “We feel the presence of Mother Mary ...

AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding ... none of them could account for the sacred mother’s weeping. Early on Jan.