Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...
Mbappé looks impressed when he meets his waxwork statue at Madame Tussauds
Kylian Mbappé has been impressed by his waxwork version at Madame Tussauds in London. He walked through the door and his face ...
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Worth the wait
A statue of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in the historic St. Mary's Hall. Photos by Lee Pellegrini. More than one hundred years after it was built, the historic St. Mary’s Hall—home to the Boston College ...
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Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
Its famous statue of the Virgin became a powerful symbol of the Christianization ... Inhabited for more than four centuries by the same Order, the Order of St. Jerome, it has undergone restorations ...
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Saint Valentine, mysterious Roman martyr turned symbol of love
As every year on the same date, February 14, will be an occasion to celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day. The origins of this festival of love, which dates back at least to the medieval era ...