AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding ... in Israel’s Nazareth and France’s Lourdes. “We present no certain interpretation ...

ROME — Supernatural events like visions of the Virgin Mary and statues weeping tears of blood ... apparitions of Mary in the French city of Lourdes and the Portuguese town of Fatima, both ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Friday radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and ... Portugal, and Lourdes, France, into enormously ...

A friend has offered to accompany me to Lourdes next spring ... But I’m guessing just to be where the Blessed Virgin Mary once spoke to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, whose feast the Church ...

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people ...