As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St.

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

They were canonized as Martyr Saints in 1981 and at this time their relics were moved into the main section of the church where they rest today in marble sarcophagi. The interior of the Convent Church ...

In spite of being within driving distance of other Lutheran church titans, St. Mary Magdalene Lutheran Church has grown in the last 20 years as a quaint gathering spot for suburban families.

These views have been strongly rejected by many. In the 13th Century, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in France announced it had Mary Magdalene's body as a relic. This was disputed by Vezelay ...

But Saint Francis was a man in a brown sackcloth. Mary Magdalene, who was first to see Jesus resurrected, was a young woman. To see her in her spiritual swoon, in the intimate setting of her ...