Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...

Legendary Italian artist Michelangelo never actually wanted to work on the Sistine Chapel, considered to be some of his ...

Christians around the world celebrated the festival of Pentecost, which takes place fifty days after Easter and commemorates the Holy Spirit descending upon Christ’s disciples. The familiar story is ...

The Prado in Madrid will be opening a new exhibition today entitled So far, so close. Guadalupe of Mexico in Spain.

In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

On May 16, human remains were found by a relative while spreading slurry with a local agricultural contractor at the farm.

Kerry farmer Michael Gaine was laid to rest in Kenmare town this morning - two and a half months after he first went missing.

A vision 10 years in the making became a reality at St. Ambrose Church in Annandale June 4 when Bishop Michael F. Burbidge ...

Mary Magdelane is hidden among the 300-plus figures that Michelangelo painted into The Last Judgment mural in the Sistine Chapel. The design is filled with the Bible’s biggest hitters—Jesus at ...

DAYTONA BEACH — When a small group of local residents traveled to a tiny hamlet on the Tuscan coast of Italy in July to see the new marble sculpture of Mary McLeod Bethune, Hiram Powell ...