The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

In EWTN’s On Demand section, you will be able to “scrub” through the video to find the picture that interests you, listen to ...

St Patrick's Day is also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick and marks the date of the Irish patron saint's death. The celebration traditionally commemorates St Patrick bringing Christianity to ...

Pagan influence is present in the iconography of Catholic churches across Montreal. Photo Rebekah Walker Christian iconography is fused with religious devotion, becoming synonymous with the faith ...

The day was first released from the purview of the Catholic Church in 1969 ... But Cupid isn’t exclusively a pagan symbol. Without trying to sort out the connections between the classical ...

One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than the Virgin of Guadalupe of ... This Marian shrine, however, had been preceded on Tepeyac hill by the pagan ...

The Catholic Church may have established St ... the celebration of St. Valentine's Day on February 14 to replace the pagan holiday. When did Valentine's Day become a romantic holiday?

February is a great month in France. Not only do school holidays start - just six weeks after Christmas - but the holiday ...

Gone with Marilyn Monroe is the last, and perhaps the greatest, of the sex symbols. Lesser girls in ... between passionate love named for a pagan god and spiritual love through which man imitates ...

Melville was a Catholic and supported Home Rule for Ireland ... which symbolizes the beginning of harvest. The goat was a symbol of pagan fertility. Every year locals captured a wild goat in ...