The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

St. Justin Martyr Born in Flavia Neapolis (in Palestinian Syria) around 100; conversion to Christianity around 130; martyred in Rome in the year 165, under Marcus Aurelius. Saint Justin Martyr (as ...

Perpetua and Felicity, early saints mentioned in Eucharistic Prayer ... here are 10 things to know about these early martyrs. Perpetua was a young Christian woman and martyr who died just after ...

A judge accepted a plea agreement for Fautz Friday, sentencing the former religion teacher at St. Stephen Martyr to 19 years and seven months in prison. "My client's 40 years old. It's hard telling ...

Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives ... It was decided to use the ten niches not just to commemorate saints or worthy figures ...

In the early years of the Church, the title saint was bestowed first upon martyrs, and then upon individuals ... While he is already recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church, some may wonder ...

This newly designated national shrine is holy ground, witnessing to 17th-century Jesuit priests and laymen and St. Kateri ...

To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s Dicastery ... according to the Vatican department for saints. The ...

Canonization is the final step towards sainthood in the Catholic Church ... group are 11 individuals known as the "martyrs of Damascus," who have become saints some 160 years after their death.