Witness accounts noted in the study claim the saint had struck his head when a tree had fallen on his way to Naples, Italy.

He shaped Catholic doctrine for centuries, arguing for faith based on reason and science, and offering five logical 'proofs' ...

The Orthodox distinctiveness lies particularly in the preparation period, which includes a fast starting on November 15—longer than Advent in the Catholic tradition. This liturgical period ...

Hoxha’s rule of terror murdered 5,577 men and 450 women in Albania. Communist regimes throughout history have produced their fair share of cults of personality (cue the eponymous 1988 song by Living ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its ... At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

NORTHFIELD — The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield has decreed that the Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel at Thomas Aquinas ... Help, a Byzantine icon believed to have ...

Visit the homepage for more information. In the Marian prayer of St. Thomas, which is always God-centered and in relation to Christ, we find an emphasis on petition, as well as emphases on ...

The Byzantine tradition of icon painting proved particularly influential to Italian artists, giving them a rich canvas of ideas for religious imagery and representation that was awe-inspiring, austere ...

When he was made the 1,001st Knight of the Garter he took as his crest ‘a wolf rampant holding between the forepaws a bottle’ Sir Thomas Dunne, who has died aged 91, could reasonably be said ...