Any event can be marked by cake, perhaps most surprisingly the solemn fast of Good Friday, with its hot cross buns ...

The seven sorrows are a series of events that the Virgin Mary experienced and can be seen visually represented with seven swords that cross her heart. They are related to Jesus because Mary's ...

1300-1366). It expanded the calvary scene to other moments of Christ's Passion and Mary's sorrows. Paralleling Mary's joys, lists of five, later seven sorrows (corresponding to the Hours of the daily ...

Gabriel is repeatedly beaten while Mary is raped by her captors during a six-hour abduction nightmare. After she gets away Mary is forced to choose between seizing a chance at freedom and letting ...

Devotion to the five sorrows of Mary appears first and eventually develops into devotion to seven sorrows. In fact, two lists of seven sorrows were drawn up, one including the infancy and childhood of ...

Joseph shared the happiness-but also the sufferings-of Mary. The Seven Sundays Devotion honors the seven joys and sorrows of St. Joseph. It starts on the seventh Sunday previous to March 19 (the ...