Jesuit junior Marian Dunne stood at the penalty kick line with 12 minutes left in Tuesday’s game against West Linn.

(RNS) — While the Vatican did not confirm that the Marian apparitions were real, it recognized that the devotion of the faithful to the site is undeniable.

During the Marian month of May, Catholics observe prayer vigils, open-air Masses, and community rosaries at Marian shrines, where fresh flowers are offered as a sign of love and devotion to the Mother ...

Other popular Marian devotions included meditative or contemplative prayer with Our Lady (46%), reciting the rosary with others (37%), and reading spiritual writings on Mary (28%).

"In the early 1600s, a Capuchin friar had the nice idea of officially coronating the Marian images that had a certain devotion, and so he went around towns and began this practice," said Pietro Zander ...