The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

It is a great educational journey backward historical, cultural, political, religious that helps shed light on the roots of the Christian West, aptly illustrating the turning point desired ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, popular discontent, foreign war, and a plague all combined to bring his ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy. German popes elected from the Empire included Gregory in 996 and Damasus II in 1048. England ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

When the cardinals gather in Rome to elect Pope Francis’s successor, two issues will weigh on their decision: the Catholic ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

It is the only basilica that was born, grew, and remained on its original perimeter and houses the tomb of Saint Paul the Apostle. 'So it is very ancient,' explained Mayor Roberto Gualtieri ...