Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks ...

Opening on 30 May at the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street in Dublin, the exhibition will run for four months.

Visiting the Holy Island of Lindisfarne has been compared to a 'entering a secret world' with its peaceful atmosphere, ...

Mumsnet crowned Northumberland as the number one place to visit thanks to its 'beautiful' beaches and countryside - here are ...

Pope predicting is not a new phenomenon. One of the documents which is often referred to in this light is a medieval text ...

these saints can only be loosely called “transgender” or “queer.” Brown commented that for years academics have pursued the idea of medieval abbots as “mothering” their monks ...

Christians believed for centuries that palms bled, saints levitated ... which allowed her to roam medieval Europe on pilgrimage. But Kempe was an exception: Women who stepped out of place could ...

Pope Francis died at 7:35 a.m. (Rome time) on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025 at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. This was announced from Casa Santa Marta at 9:45 a.m. by ...

Lviv, a jewel of cobblestone alleys, Hapsburg-era palaces and squares, and churches dating to the Middle Ages, possessed a veneer ... and 1705 by the Galician monk and painter Yov Kondzelevych ...