When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...

Sacramentals aid the ignorant in learning the truths of faith as children learn from pictures before they are ... images of the Blessed Virgin and of the saints, rosaries, and scapulars.

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like ... "Recently, I saw a beautiful statue of Jesus in an old photo, and the new repainting doesn't even take into account that the robe ...

But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked in the desert, Saint Mary ... Mary of Egypt tale has a very important lesson that you cannot teach with tales of virgin saints ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, represented by the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), participated in the Museum Summit 2025 held in Hong Kong,China under the theme “Going ...

Posting a photo on Facebook, the Conservator of Monuments said: 'A rather rare depiction of the Virgin Mary looking upwards. 'Another example of good intentions... Let's hope that in the near ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a ...

Most Swedish households will own a waffle iron. But what do the sweet treats have to do with the Virgin Mary? Photo: Leif R Jansson/TT Hej and welcome to the latest instalment of The Local's Fika ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died ...