the Feast of Mary’s Assumption into heaven. Ntabomvura was there, and Gaspard Garuka, who lived nearby. The girls were crying because, they reported, the Virgin was in tears too, Garuka says.

Uprisings erupted across the German-speaking world in the year that followed as urban lower-class citizens and lesser nobles attacked intellectual, cultural and economic centers, leading to the ...

It is told that when Mary cried at the Cross, her tears turned into this flower. Spiderwort and spotted lungwort were also called Our Lady's Tears. The strawberry was called Fruitful Virgin and it was ...

The Vatican said Thursday it recognised the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, without commenting on the Virgin's ...

Pope Francis has expressed some doubts on the messages, commenting in 2013 on the Virgin Mary’s particularly chatty nature at ...

Samaha, S.M. While the Virgin Mary probably possessed no gold to smooth her life in ... Droplets gather in the flower during the night and drip off like tears when it opens in the morning. This ...

To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then ... O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. V. Pray for us, O holy R. That we may be made worthy of ...

Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian landmark received mixed messages from the Vatican on Thursday after the Church refused to say whether their ...

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil ...

Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town.

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where Virgin Mary is said to have appeared ...