Although the status quo vis-à-vis the hidden Temple treasures has remained in-situ ... is to identify the sacred items mentioned above at the Vatican by cross-referencing them with the earliest ...

Some of these treasures are over 2,000 years ... of St. Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican. It supposedly contains a fragment of the True Cross, from the Byzantine Empire.

Only few are aware that even more treasures are stowed away beneath the Vatican Museums in vast vaults. To bring these works of art back to light is a huge undertaking. Despite new records in ...

The Vatican faces increasing pressure to return Indigenous artifacts. These items, collected during Catholic missions, are ...

Lev said, “So when Peter’s body was cut down off the cross he had to be buried ... and just one of the treasures of the Vatican museums. The decision in 1780 to open those museums to the ...

BARBARA Jatta, the first woman to head the Vatican Museums, wants visitors to avoid being suffocated by the crowds and take in the lesser-known – but spectacular – attractions she helps to ...

“The old rite’s ability to encourage silence and contemplation is a treasure not ... from a similar cross-section of prominent Britons that had also asked the Vatican to preserve the Latin ...

Every Easter for four centuries, 13 priests would gather in the Vatican Apostolic Palace to have their feet washed by the pope. The ceremony became one of the most important symbolic rituals of ...