Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917, when much of the world was ...

WEST SUSSEX, England — The theft of the gold rosary that Mary, Queen of Scots took to her execution is a “very tragic loss” for Catholic history, a curator has said. Jan Graffius, the curator of the ...

Although it is unclear how the rosary came to the Howard family, it has been in their possession since the 16th century and on display at Arundel Castle. The thieves broke in Friday evening, smashed ...

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae; Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra salve. It was night. Throughout the Italian peninsula the monks, friars and nuns were kneeling in the monasteries, friaries, convents ...

I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the ...