St. Peter was himself martyred some 200 years before Agatha and is shown here to the faithful as a source of comfort and the bearer of God’s healing for the suffering young Christian.

Today is the feast of St. Agatha, of Sicily, Virgin, Martyr. "Every year on February 4 and 5, the men of Catania pull her relics, housed in a bejeweled life-sized effigy through the streets of ...

The statue was blessed by Bishop Giovanni-Maria Camilleri at the parvis of St James church at It-Tokk on August 13. Every August 13, the statue was paraded along the streets of Victoria and then ...

A new statue of Pope John Paul II stands in the French Quarter, in front of the cathedral where he celebrated Mass in 1987.Pope John Paul II is the only sitting pope to visit the Crescent City.The ...

The doors of St. Paul's Co-Cathedral were marked with red paint on June 24, 2021 in response to the announcement from Cowessess First Nation that 751 unmarked graves graves had been identified ...

Around 40 Catholic faithful gathered before sunrise in Battery Park to watch Pope Francis canonize Mother Teresa as a saint. At 4 a.m. Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj (D-Bronx) set up a bronze statue of th… ...

(ANSA) - Palermo, February 2 - A 16th-century statue stolen from a church near Cuneo in the northern region of Piedmont was recovered in Sicily on Thursday. The gold-covered statue of St ...

US$1.2 million restoration sees the mosaics of Sicily’s Monreale Cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage site, set to regain their golden lustre.

One person was arrested after a statue of Jesus Christ on the crucifix outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End was ripped apart Tuesday night. Michael Patzelt, 37, of Attleboro ...

The Angel of Harmony statue, installed at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in 1999 was damaged on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Dept.

The statue was unveiled by her grandson Mathew Prichard. A life-sized bronze statue of crime novelist Dame Agatha Christie has been unveiled in the town where she lived.