Modern Martyrs of Poland, Pray for Us Beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1999, these 108 martyrs bore witness to Christ under Nazi and Communist persecution ...

SAINTS & ART: May 29 marks more than a liturgical footnote: It’s the day a young priest named Montini began the journey to becoming St. Paul VI.

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. This is because the day is associated with the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar, who was stabbed to death at the hands of his senators in ...

The ending is well known: turncoat legions declared for Octavian and advanced on Egypt from Cyrenaica; the garrison at Pelusium, near modern Port Said, surrendered, leaving the eastern route to ...

Historian Alexander Mariotti, a consultant on Ridley Scott’s epic sequel, moonlights as a guide for Tom Cruise, the Kardashians and Russell Crowe ...

Long-lost homestead of King Pompey unearthed by archaeologists. Credit: Matthew Modoono / Northeastern University Archaeologists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and a historian from ...

A team of University of New Hampshire archeologists believes they might have found the home of a leader in New England's Black community dating back to the 1700s.

Meet the modern-day ‘devil’s advocate’ in the process of canonization A view of the baldacchino underneath the central dome of St. Peter's Basilica. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA ...

Roman general Pompey (in a first-century B.C. bust) launched a campaign against piracy in 67 B.C., which made the Mediterranean much safer for trade. Museum of Roman Civilization, Rome PRISMA/ALBUM ...

Santangelo, voice-over: Pompey and Crassus are prepared to resort to intimidation, to violence in the run-up to the election, including, indeed, on election day.