Monday’s announcement paves the way for the beatification of the missionaries, who have been known collectively as the ...

also draws from German painter Eduard von Grützner’s painting “The Connoisseur,” which led Zauner to picture Orlando as a “daydreaming friar” who searches for his love interest ...

Giulia Panchoni Righetto, 26, was with her boyfriend and their three friends yesterday afternoon when the São Francisco ...

(REVIEW) The Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán is celebrated today as one of the greatest masters of the Spanish Golden Age. His many paintings of friars, nuns and saints for the churches and ...

The five Spanish Franciscans, known as the Georgia martyrs, are seen in a painting featured in a video from the Diocese of ...

Witness accounts noted in the study claim the saint had struck his head when a tree had fallen on his way to Naples, Italy.

But Dante wanted his poem to be widely accessible and was confident that the brilliance of his poetic art would make his vernacular ... the Dominican friar Guido Vernani wrote that Dante was ...

Discover all the best day trips from Mexico City — San Miguel de Allende, Xochimilco, Las Grutas Tolantongo, Puebla, Cholula, Teotihuacan & more!

Madrid is today a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, a meeting point where history, art and spirituality intertwine to form ... This place, whose main architect was the friar Lorenzo de San Nicolás, is a ...

The Friars Fire broke out just after 12:30 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. It is 0% contained. The San Diego Fire Department confirmed it is at the scene battling the vegetation fire ...

After the meteoric rise of their namesake mendicant orders in the 13th and 14th centuries, Dominican and Franciscan friars began to demand new forms from devotional art. This prompted a dramatic ...