Going on a Visita Iglesia tour this Holy Week? If you happen to be in Batangas, you may want to include Montemaria Shrine, home to the world's tallest Virgin Mary statue, in your itinerary.

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

It is the tallest statue in the country and is considered the tallest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world. In comparison, it stands taller than the US' Statue of Liberty and Brazil's Christ the ...

A child of the poor gathered his companions around him and led them to a statue of Mary, before which a lamp was burning, as is the custom in that holy city. There, these fresh young voices sang ...

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Construction for the first shrine built to honor the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe started in ... Admission to the museum is 10 Mexican pesos (about 50 cents), while the rest of the complex is free ...

A former McDonald's worker bludgeoned to death a 69-year-old pensioner with a statue of the Virgin Mary and a tin of mangoes. Now she will pay the price. Lonely Melbourne widower Elia Abdelmessih was ...

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