After God shuts them in, the flood begins, with rain for 40 days and 40 nights. This is the first time the Bible will ...

It may only be the second most famous ark in the Bible, but the Ark of the Covenant continues to fascinate ... because it held the Ten Commandments and other holy objects. People who carried ...

Like the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant, the tomb has taken on a mythical status that has captivated many archaeologists over the years. "As long as his tomb isn't found, he lives on in a quasi ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Rashi, explaining the view of Rabbi Nehemiah in the Talmud [1] that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the Holy Spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian ... 10 1219 The Church has seen in Noah's ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism, for by it "a few, that is, eight persons, were saved ...

One of the significant developments created by the IDF Rabbinate is a Holy Ark for the Torah scroll, which, at the touch of a button, becomes a table for the scroll. "As far as transporting a ...