The Cross of Laeken

Another royal prayer card, showing King Leopold III with his tragically deceased father and wife and referencing the Marian apparitions a...

Since the cult of Our Lady of Sorrows has special connections to Belgium, I was particularly interested by this article by Gareth Russell on...

This is an oil painting, from the estate of Princess Lilian of Belgium , which originally belonged to the mother of King Albert I, Princess ...

[T]he virgin knelt down with great veneration in an attitude of prayer, and her back was turned to the manger, but her face was lifted to h...

A Michelangelo in Belgium.  To quote Mary Ann Sullivan, of Bluffton University: Scholars have speculated that this work was first conceive...

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!

In the 1939 film Juarez , Bette Davis, cast as the tragic Belgian empress of Mexico, begs Our Lady for a child.

Today marks the anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. On October 13, 1917, the three shepherd children, Lucia, Francisc...

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto and the Feast of Our Lady of Victory.

Here is a prayer to Our Lady of Banneux. Notre-Dame de Banneux, Vierge des Pauvres, vous avez dit: "Je viens soulager la souffrance....

Quite a privilege for King Baudouin to be born the day before this wonderful feast!

Coronation of the Virgin (ca. 1350) by Giacomo di Mino

Memorare, o piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suf...