This Sunday is the feast of Pentecost, fifty days from Passover (hence the name), in the Jewish calendar the festival of ...

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in ... They were writing for an audience beyond Palestine, and in the Roman Empire of the first century, there was no general consensus about the names ...

Our History editor-in-chief Amy Briggs can explain. How often do the men in your life think about the Roman Empire? Maybe more than you think. They may not wear costumes, like these Catalan actors ...

Charles rearranged Low Country institutions as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire – the very same organisation he formally ruled – through the Burgundian treaty of 1548, ...

Be sealed with Seal of the Holy Spirit! What does it Mean? A seal is an identifying mark often placed on a letter, contract, or another document. It simply shows that what was in the letter came from ...

Protestant nobles rebelled, and by the 1630s most of continental Europe was at war. As a result of the Treaty of Westphalia, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, Sweden gained control of the Baltic, ...

The series starts Monday, 16th June at 9pm on Sky HISTORY. At its zenith in 117 AD, the Roman Empire stretched from the cold fringes of northern Britain to the deepest valleys of the Nile. Many who ...

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