The pictures on the left show the process. The crucifix which is sculpted in wood and beautifully polychromed dates to the late 17th century. It was traditionally attributed to Melchiorre’ Gafa ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND—Archaeologists recovered four wooden stakes from the moat surrounding ... are the only surviving examples of seventeenth-century defensive stakes. Experts believe the three ...