Adoration or veneration of an image or representation of Christ's cross does not mean that we actually adore the material image, of course, but rather what it represents. In kneeling before the ...

21,4-9; Wis. 16,5-14; Ex. 25, 10-22; 1 Kings 6,23-28; 7, 23-26). The seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (787) justified the veneration of icons of Christ, his mother and the angels and saints. The ...

Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous ...

Mumbai: Mumbai's East Indian community observed Thursday, February 6, as 'St Gonsalo Garcia Day' in honour of the Roman ...

The Immaculate Conception is the belief that Mary was born free from original sin. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated by Catholics on 8 December each year.

She has a definite role in Orthodox Christianity, and can in no way be considered an instrument which, once used, was laid aside and forgotten. Objections to the veneration of the Theotokos are based ...

Archaeologists Dr. Jess Thompson and her colleagues have published a study dealing with the possible identification of human skulls used in ancestral veneration in the European Journal of Archaeology.

Panaji: With the crowd at Old Goa swelling, authorities have decided to increase the timings for the veneration of the relics of Saint Francis Xavier by two hours, minister Aleixo Sequeira said on ...

A relic belonging to St. Jude Thaddeus will soon be available for veneration at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Midtown, Memphis. The relic is the arm bone of St. Jude Thaddeus.

We were in luck, the porter said: It was a feast day. The relics of the monastery’s saintly founder were on view for public veneration. As a Catholic and a medievalist, I can never resist ...