After decades of prolific artistic creation, a master santero is celebrating a first. Los Lunas-based santero Nicolas Otero, a longtime carving and painting saint-maker whose works include church ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

including the kitchen that features the church’s altar, the listing points out. Every bathroom appears to have its own personality as well — along with, what appears to be, the primary suite behind a ...

A handful of Apple Valley residents call themselves Danzantes, or Aztec dancers. They are ‘taking back their Mexican cultural ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Gigante, therefore, believes that the real tent was adapted to serve as a 'tetravela', altar-curtains. "If the real tent was only erected in the church on certain occasions, the fresco could have ...

Sister Maria Angeline SCC kisses the altar as members of the congregation ... Mary’s included symbolic farewells to various elements in the church, from the baptismal font to a statue of the ...

a blend of neoclassical style with baroque elements. The result is an interior that boasts intricate stained-glass windows and an elaborate altar ornamented with marble and deep blue lapis lazuli.

It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of Medjugorje, Ivan Dragicevic walks down the aisle, kneels in front of the altar ...