FERRYLAND, NEWFOUNDLAND—A small copper crucifix with the Virgin Mary and Christ Child on its back has been unearthed at the Colony of Avalon site on the coast of Newfoundland. The territory had ...

RESIDENTS on a Middlesbrough housing estate have described their sadness at the theft of a 17th Century crucifix. The 6ft-high crucifix is believed to have been on the site at Newcomen Green in ...

SAINTS & ART: The 17th-century Jesuit St. John Berchmans inspires ... holding (at his request) a crucifix, a rosary and the Ignatian Rule. He was canonized in 1888. The early Jesuits of the ...

The 17th-century Ta’ Ġieżu crucifix at the Franciscan Church of St Mary of Jesus in Valletta will undergo extensive conservation. Attributed to Frate Innocenzo da Petralia, legend has it that ...

Now archaeologists have uncovered an unusual example of people using these tips in a 17th-century Polish cemetery ... or by driving a wooden stake through the heart. Stakes were often secured ...