The interior of the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island. At the very end of the isle the Icon for the “new martyrs” is visible. (Credit: Claire Giangravè.) Listen ROME – On Saturday ...

Located under the Appian Way, an ancient Roman road connecting the city to southeast Italy, the Catacomb of St. Callixtus once held the bodies of more than 50 martyrs, including St. Cecilia ...

Francis went to the basilica of St Bartholomew on the Tiber, which, after the Jubilee of 2000, was dedicated to the memory of the new martyrs of the 20th and 21st century. “The memory of these ...

Why didn't these brother martyrs try to save at all costs the irreplaceable good of life? Why did they continue to serve the Church despite threats and intimidations? In this basilica that holds the ...

a third-century saint known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara. The ceremony in the town of Izmit was attended by Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew, Greek Consul in ...