Tents, especially Islamic tents were among the most prized gifts in diplomatic exchanges and the most sought-after spoils on ...

Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, ...

The Italian woman was a lay mystic who had a vision of Jesus and the Virgin Mary and maintained ... “She spent the last period of her life at home offering hospitality, listening, offering ...

The Vatican has issued a decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Servant of God Luigina Sinapi, declaring her “venerable.” ...

When she visited Italy for the first time with her father back in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Three decades later she was doing ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence ... painted over with scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. This later fresco has captured ...

ANDREA SOLERO / EPA The next day, Kenya's Sabrina Simader slaloms down the slopes at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Italy ... next to a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Mother of Mercy ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long forgotten—but still viable to grow and consume ...

These specialty gardens, called St. Mary's Gardens, or Mary Gardens, enabled people to honor the Virgin Mary and her Son directly in the garden, as well as through the use of the cut flowers inside ...

orange blossoms are associated with the Virgin Mary. In Judaism, a bitter, thick-peeled variety of citron (Citrus medica), known in Hebrew as etrog, is traditionally used in ceremonies marking the ...

The 40-room, 20-office complex, set to be completed in the fall of 2026, will provide congregate living for the 40 priests, ...