Spain. The Spanish royals, perhaps the most high-profile Catholic monarchs in Europe, were the first to put out a statement, ...

Power Couple A miniature in a late 15th-century devotional book showing the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, with their young daughter Joanna. who would succeed her mother as Queen of ...

For example, let’s imagine a world in which Spain’s “Catholic Kings,” Ferdinand and Isabel, had not triumphed in 1491 in Spain’s centuries-long reconquest of Iberia from its Muslim invaders.

The High Gothic style assumed a particularly exhilarating form in medieval Spain, where the Toledo Cathedral, begun in 1226, offers one of its most resplendent architectural expressions.

Beatifications Recall Stories of Spain's Catholic Heroes. Sabrina Ferrisi Vatican March 18, 2001. VATICAN CITY — In the largest group ever beatified at one time, ...