European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

Pilgrims brought rosaries and prayer intentions to press against more than 500 reliquaries, seeking heavenly intercession.

VATICAN CITY — The 70th anniversary of the death on April 10 of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the controversial French Jesuit whose works the Vatican formally censured in 1962, has given further ...