Venerating the Rocío Virgin has been a tradition since the main icon was discovered near this village in the southern Spanish ...

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EL ROCIO, Spain — Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, ...

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In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocio Virgin, a Catholic icon of the ...

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

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The rare version of Christianity heading toward extinction - Hidden Christians are dying out, and there is growing certainty ...

It is empty, emphasizing that Christ is indeed risen ... “The Stations of the Cross are commonly found in churches as a series of 14 small icons or images. … The stations are most commonly ...