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The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Persecuted Christians hid in catacombs, underground tunnels in the Roman empire. Nero's soldiers arrested the Christians for their religious belief and tortured and killed them. Engraving published in ...

The remarkable story of one of the most popular saints of the early Church The image of St. Agnes, a child clutching her lamb and the palm of martyrdom, adorned the parish of my childhood. It was ...

Rome is easily the closest thing you'll ever find to a time machine. Photo / I arrived by sea, pulling in at Civitavecchia ...

The Way of Light (Via Lucis) celebrates the most joyful time in the Christian liturgical ... on a wall of the San Callisto Catacombs on the Appian Way in Rome. This cemetery is named for Saint ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding ... Carthaginians and Christians, while the griffin was a pagan symbol, according to ...

Clergy speak with the Register about falling Mass attendance and other concerns, while highlighting how the young faithful’s ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has promulgated a decree recognizing that five Spanish Franciscans were killed “in ...

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By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of the Georgia martyrs Jan. 27, the pope cleared the way for their beatification ...