The legend of the Holy Grail is one of the most captivating stories in Western and Christian traditions, but where could the ...
Visitors will have a chance to view St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull up close in Baltimore, and perhaps absorb some of its holiness.
It is believed to house the site of Jesus's crucifixion and burial. But what can archaeology tell us about the church and its surrounding area? Is it a plausible location for the Tomb of Jesus?
Though the Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, it says very little about what he actually looked like. And it took centuries ...
When you think about it, looking a skull square in the empty eye sockets ... the reputed crown of thorns placed by Roman soldiers on Jesus’s head to mock him before execution.
The Royston Cave was uncovered by workmen making a bench in the butter market above the cave in 1742. After lifting up a ...
(Photo: Courtesy photo) St. Thomas’ soul was the form of his whole body in life, the form of this skull, in life. Jesus Christ has revealed that we will rise from the dead on the Last Day.
Some propose that December 25 was chosen because it would place the date of Jesus' conception nine months earlier on the same day as his crucifixion. While it took a while to catch on after the ...
Just hours before his arrest and Crucifixion, according to the Gospels, Jesus prayed in a garden called Gethsemane, probably from the Aramaic words for oil press. Today many pilgrims come to this ...
The Roman emperor Nero persecuted Christians in the first century A.D.; some were crucified, and some were forced to fight ..
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. that we may ...