Many thousands of people welcomed the summer in Porto the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by bonking friends and strangers alike with toy hammers and reveling in the ...

An older St. John’s Eve ritual in Portugal’s second-biggest city involved buying leek flowers believed to bring good fortune and inviting strangers to sniff the pungent plant.

The Apostle Andrew. St. Andrew is mentioned in all four Gospel accounts and in Acts. Andrew was first a disciple of John the Baptist (John 1:40), and when he recognized Jesus as the Messiah he was ...

Santo Domingo.- Ambassador Frank R. Rainieri, representative of the Sovereign Order of Malta in the Dominican Republic, ...

PARMA, Ohio -- Rumors about the future of Parma’s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist have been persistent. Now the future of the roughly 20-some acre church and former school has become a little ...

St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, is one of only three people in history — after Jesus and Mary — whose birthday is celebrated in the Church’s liturgy. In fact, the Nativity of ...

A historic stained-glass window from the former St. John the Baptist Church now resides at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford.

People cheer and shoot video of a group releasing a flying lantern while celebrating the Saint John feast by the the Douro river in Porto, northern Portugal, Monday night, June 23, 2025.