Unfortunately, the beatific face of the Virgin Mary was disfigured in the process — and now professional restorers and conservation experts are demanding tighter laws covering restoration work.

The painting at the heart of this story isn’t an original, like the Spanish “Monkey Jesus” fresco that a churchgoer with no qualifications just decided to paint over (below). But a copy of a ...

Hairy Mary’s Vintage sells a tightly edited collection ... including a white ruched-leather bootie from the “Like a Virgin” eighties of Madonna (in her first iteration).

Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she appears in only a handful of pages in the Gospels. Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of ...

If the Virgin Mary hadn't appeared there in 1879 there ... Two Mary's, twenty-six-year-old Mary Berine and Mary McLoughlin of unknown vintage, who was also the priest's housekeeper, were the ...

The long, sheer fabric featured a large image of the Virgin Mary embroidered in the center, which was based on one of Barker’s skull tattoos, Vogue reports. The headdress was hand embroidered ...

The Vintage Vendors store revealed that the origins ... which to many has a striking resemblance to that of The Virgin Mary. "Another interesting fact about the cabinet is that if the door is ...

The month of May is commonly associated with devotions to the Virgin Mary - "The Queen of May". We celebrate by remembering tales of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Ireland. May devotions to the ...

Legend has it that this fourth century church was built after the Virgin Mary appeared in a dream to an aristocrat, Giovanni, and to Pope Liberius, requesting a house of worship in her honor.