Across town is the Basilica di Santa Chiara, dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate St. Francis. He ...

This Lenten sweet treat is also given to children who want to embark upon a one-day, 14-church pilgrimage to remember ... an Italian monk in the early Middle Ages, according to a Vatican Library ...

As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to ...

It was one of the most important European places of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. However, many German Catholics, also in Cologne, have turned their backs on the churc h in recent years. Many say ...

This book was translated into Welsh in the Middle Ages as ‘Buchedd Dewi’ and led to his increased ... From about 547 AD he travelled around the Celtic world to preach. He later went on pilgrimage to ...

Nusuk continues to evolve as the Saudi Ministry of Hajj continues to tweak how pilgrims book their travel. Amir Saeed, owner ...

The Medievals had three types of hospitals. The first, known as the leprosaria, for those afflicted with leprosy. The second ...

La Strada del prosecco, or the “Prosecco Road,” passes ridged hills lined with vineyards and dotted with castles and medieval ...

The Trinitarian Order comes to the aid of persecuted Christians in Syria, Nigeria, and northern India, among other places.

In Portugal’s wild northern borderlands, survival and spirituality go hand in hand with the changing seasons, as they have ...

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