What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

The church and the cemetery are still in use. All items necessary for church services are in place, many of them also very old, even dating back to medieval times. As a building representing the stave ...

The massive foundations of the church were made of chipped limestone ... Eaves-drip burials were also a Christian practice ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of ...

It has a large sapphire in the middle which is surrounded by emeralds and garnets. In Medieval times these rings were associated with bishops. Walter de Grey, the powerful Archbishop of York ...

The parish church, St Thomas the Martyr, was built as part of Edward I's plan for the new town. There are also medieval stone-vaulted wine cellars that remain, and New Gate, which was once the ...

St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.