The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...

The San Jose galleon was believed to be holding gold, silver, gemstones and other treasure worth billions of dollars when it was sunk in 1708.

The Vatican, for all its spiritual power and theological ... Another item of note in the papal wardrobe is the pectoral cross, typically suspended from a gold or silver cord and worn over the ...

Considered the Holy Grail of all shipwrecks, the Spanish galleon San Jose blew up and sank in 1708 at the hands of British ...

The Village Voice and LA Weekly review of "Fountain of Youth" notes that director Guy Ritchie's plot is convoluted but the ...

The study said the evidence from the coins supports the identification of the wreck as the San José Galleon, which sank in ...

He has already offered the Vatican as a venue to hold diplomatic ... from locally made olive-wood nativity scenes and gold crosses to votive candles and sanctuary lamps, said he hopes Leo will ...

It is the greatest treasure of the Church ... The sacrifice of the cross was first of all a sacrifice of adoration and praise of God. Although the Mass is sometimes offered "in honor and in ...

His past gives us the impression that newly elected Pope Leo XIV is a living saint. But is he also the Pope prophesied by St. Malachy and the one cited in the M ...

In the image, the pontiff appears smiling, dressed in the traditional white cassock and the gold pectoral cross he wore during ... of Peter on May 8. The Vatican stated that “the image is ...

First of two parts The specific contribution that St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus offers as a saint and a Doctor of the Church “is not analytical and scholarly.” It is more synthetic, “for her genius ...