Many thanks, also, to the many other people who have helped me with this project in some way. In 2000, I completed a thesis on The Virgin Mary in Film. One of the areas studied was the brief but ...

Eric Wolf referred to the holy image and the ideology surrounding it as the Mexican master symbol. He identified it as a cultural form or idiom of behavior operating on the symbolic level, and not ...

PARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child ... The nearly six-foot-tall stone sculpture, a symbol of hope and faith for Catholics in Paris and beyond, was relocated after ...

symbols that represent Palestinian identity and resistance. Many of the illustrations are featured on the Instagram known as “Where’s Lupita?,” which tracks global Virgin Mary iconography.

They had been wrongly catalogued in the library, and only when the code was broken was it possible to identify Mary as the author. Working through a complex pattern of symbols in the letters ...