The Middle Ages are defined as the period between the years 500 and 1500 in Europe. They're also sometimes referred to as the ...

All indications point to the fact that the earliest phase of church construction in Norway was not just a matter of communal ...

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

The miraculous origin of the spring at Lourdes in France is well-documented, but in Ireland, there are about 3,000 holy wells ...

Dating to the Middle Ages and popularized in the 16th century, the chain of beads that comprises a rosary is one of the most ...

the Catholic church no longer has anywhere near the political influence that it possessed in the Middle Ages. Despite this, Christians still comprise around two thirds of America’s population ...

Parts of the church were likely used elsewhere in the ... “Such stones were quite expensive in the Middle Ages,” Anja Rutter—the archaeologist leading the excavation—told Hessischer ...

But the church's reaction suggested that the ... It was one of the most important European places of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. However, many German Catholics, also in Cologne, have turned ...

Credit: Vatican Media During the Middle Ages, the popes were solemnly ... St. Athanasius — symbolizing the unity of the Church through the ages, bringing together the teachings of both the ...

Contemporary sweat baths reflect the country’s architectural past — and propose a future in which simple, sustainable ...