Holy reliquaries, including relics of Saint Nicolas — who inspired Santa Claus — were confiscated by Canadian border services ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...

The event is rooted in African and Native American influences, with ties to both Catholic and Black masking Indian traditions ...

Nicholas Owen, familiarly known as “Little John,” was small in stature but big in the esteem of his fellow Jesuits. Born at ...

The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day St. Augustine, Florida. Spanish colonial records mentioned a celebration for Saint Patrick in 1600 and ...

And in the middle is a holiday associated with merry drinking and a centuries-old religious figure: St. Patrick's Day. Monday ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

St. Patrick's Day is the feast day for St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Irish citizens celebrate the day by ...

Elevation of Amsterdam basilica to co-cathedral is a "birthday gift" from pope to city celebrating its 750th anniversary in the midst of the Jubilee Year.

PLYMOUTH ― Mishawaka Marian won the opening tip-off, but it went right into the hands of Saint Joseph senior Brashaun Woods for a breakaway layup three seconds into the game. It was a precursor ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the ...