On the altar table are two candlesticks, bought with money bequeathed by a serving maid called Sarah Hughes, who worked for one of the clergymen in the 17th century. The silver gilt cross was given in ...

ROME (AP) — Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini’s designs for ...

FILE - The scaffolding surrounded 17th century, 95ft-tall bronze canopy by Giovan Lorenzo Bernini surmounting the papal Altar of the Confession is seen in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ...

Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini's designs for the altar canopy ...