Coptic Orphans in Cairo hosted a screening of The 21, a short animated film honoring the 21 Coptic Martyrs, which was also ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Mother Teresa of St. Augustine and her 15 companions, who were guillotined in Paris as they sang hymns of praise, are now saints in the Catholic Church. Spain has 3,500 beatified martyrs from the ...

We cannot forget the sacrifices of the countless faithful who bore witness to Christ during one of the most challenging ...

or the lives of those in the Church’s calendar of saints.” The National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, New York. Credit: Ryan Amann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

They contained holy water, oils, or even the blood of martyred saints, and were believed to possess healing powers and spiritual properties. The discovery's location in Acre is no coincidence ...

For the saints, Koch turned to sculptor Sergey Eylanbekov ... according to Saint of the Day. He was martyred for his Christian faith in the early 4th century A.D. The First Amendment prohibits ...

QUINCY ‒ The new $175 million police headquarters, one of the most expensive public buildings in Quincy's history, will ...

But here's where things get fuzzy: There were at least two martyred saints named Valentine in the early Christian church, and their stories are a bit murky. One story claims St. Valentine was a ...

Another St. Valentine, the bishop of Terni, was martyred around the same time ... Now, it’s officially the feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the missionary brothers who spread the Cyrillic ...