On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades ...

The White Sox-loving Pope may be poised to canonize a Catholic priest with deep ties to America’s pastime who could be 'a ...

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

The canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church, will take place on September 7, Pope Leo ...

Here are just a few of the names to be celebrated across Europe in the weeks ... So beloved is St. Nicholas that the people of Bari, Italy, celebrate their patron saint twice: once in May, in ...

The church dedicated to the patron saint of Sweden and co-patron of Europe is located at Piazza Farnese, next to the French embassy, where in the ancient monastery of the Bridgettine nuns it is ...

Europe's ‘oldest wooden building’ where England's first patron saint lay - not St George The structure is very historically significant, and not just because of its age.

Only two of Ireland's three patron saints have a bank holiday in their honor - now, Donegal Councillor Jimmy Kavanagh thinks ...

The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration ... He escaped to another part of Europe where he was trained as a priest and returned to Ireland in the fifth century to ...

For decades, African Catholics have felt their saints have been sidelined. The continent is home to some of the ...

NEW YORK -- If it's March, and it's green, it must be St. Patrick's Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...