Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital after a case of bronchitis persisted for more than a week, a Vatican spokesman ...

While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial ...

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so ...

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.

In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

Pope Francis was being hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected pope in 2013, after he was diagnosed with ...

According to History.com, exchanging Valentine's took off in the 1700s, a period coinciding with Romanticism in literature and art across Europe and America. When a woman named Esther A. Howland began ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

Pope Francis will be hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic at the end of Friday’s daily audiences to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment ...

Valentine's Day has long been considered a time to celebrate romance and love with someone special. However, the full history ...

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor even arranged a new version of their hit anthem for the pop stars to sing, and appeared in the Colosseum crowd themselves. Not airing this marketing masterpiece was ...

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