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The White Sox-loving Pope may be poised to canonize a Catholic priest with deep ties to America’s pastime who could be 'a ...
On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades ...
In July 1950, French foreign minister Robert Schuman gave a speech commemorating Columbanus’ birth in which he spoke of the Irishman as “the patron saint of all those who seek to construct a ...
Only two of Ireland's three patron saints have a bank holiday in their honor - now, Donegal Councillor Jimmy Kavanagh thinks ...
So beloved is St. Nicholas that the people of Bari, Italy, celebrate their patron saint twice: once in May, in memory of the arrival of the saint’s relics by ship back in the year 1087, and once ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...