Clergymen and knights of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher watch the ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s ‘Crown of Thorns’ in Notre Dame Cathedral, five years after it ...
Turkey is a place rich in history and beauty, dotted with millennia-old cities, many of which originated from ancient Greek ...
The crown — a circular band of branches encased in a gilded golden tube — was brought back to its historic home Friday in a ...
The relic was first mentioned by Jerusalem pilgrims in the 5th century before being transferred to Constantinople in the 10th ...
A mural of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos (1405-1453), has been discovered in a monastery near the ...
An exciting discovery was made at the Monastery of Taxiarches: a portrait of Constantine XI Palaiologos, believed to be the ...
The Third Council of Constantinople was the sixth of the seven Ecumenical Councils of the early Christian church. The Third ...
Work attributed to Panselinos, from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, is considered the finest produced in an empire that straddled Europe and Asia and endured from the fall of Rome until the ...
Work attributed to Panselinos, from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, is considered the finest produced in an empire ...
Focusing again on the fundamental Christian beliefs outlined by the Council of Nicaea almost 1,700 years ago can help ...
Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps no better than the Greeks of Istanbul themselves.
They worked in the 15th century, as tensions between Christian and Muslim kingdoms were boiling over into war, from Spain and Italy to Constantinople. Similarly, in the 19th century, Catholic ...