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What is a monastery? Why were they responsible for preserving numerous artifacts?

In medieval Japan, a Spanish priest must face an unthinkable decision: renounce his faith, or watch the innocent suffer and die.

Matrixing is the name given to the way the human brain sometimes fools the eyes. It makes normal situations seem strange and puts faces where we least expect them.

Although Romania does not have a national religion, Greek-Orthodoxism is widespread (87%), making Orthodox Easter one of the most important holidays.

A look at the representation and symbolism of Easter in Fine Art paintings and in folklore. What is the meaning behind the Easter Bunny, the Lamb and Eggs?

Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem is interpreted as an expression of grief over the loss of the Mother.

St Pio, known to his followers as Padre Pio, lived from 1887 to 1968 and bore the wounds of the stigmata for exactly fifty years.

St. Teresa of Ávila wrote many poems dramatizing her mystical visions. Her most famous poem was immortalized in stone by sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Some heretics institute false sections of their own. The word heresy has been utilized to indicate sectarianism in the Acts of the Apostles.

The Papacy and the Empire both attempted to lead Christendom in the Middle Ages, to varying degrees of success. They existed in competition throughout the period.

The Church that St. Francis of Assisi rebuilt brick by brick still stands today in Assisi, Italy.

The symbols for these female saints tell stories of how they led exemplary lives or, for those who suffered martyrdom, tell the instrument of their death.

The first eight General Councils of the church consisted of Greeks, Egyptians and Syrians.

Despite being remembered as the Saintly victim of King Henry VIII, Thomas More was a devoted enemy of Protestants, Lutherans and anti-Catholics everywhere.

The history of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - from concept to construction and inclusion amongst the New Seven Wonders of the World.