Mysterious signposts illuminate stone walls and archways, guiding a rider through twisting medieval alleys to the Cathedral ...

In olden times Britain was known for its sacred routes. Canterbury Cathedral became a popular pilgrimage destination after ...

After a slog through an industrial zone on the city’s edge, the appeal of doing the Camino in autumn started to become clear.

For more than six centuries, a mysterious cloth known as the Shroud of Turin has stirred fascination, devotion, and heated ...

The National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Williamsburg, Virginia, is part of a thousand-year history of Marian devotion dating back to rural England.

Il Redentore – is perhaps the most graceful, says Kate Bolton-Porciatti in The Daily Telegraph, and has been drawing pilgrims to the southern island of Giudecca for centuries. It was designed by the ...

Since ancient times, towers have been a refuge, writes former prison chaplain Cliff Rawley, drawing a parallel with religious belief.

Despite popular opinions, the Middle Ages left behind objects that feel almost too extraordinary to be real. Some of their ...

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City.

American politics has become like the Hatfields vs McCoys, a family feud persisting long after anyone remembers why it began.

Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and ...

A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the ...