I had perhaps never before seen a single Romanesque painting. In the early 1920s, I learned, experts had supervised the wholesale removal of frescoes from small churches all over Catalonia, including ...

"Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany," the first book to explore medieval travel along Italy's pilgrimage routes, was published this month by Princeton University Press to much ...

While southern England gets most of the glory — and the tourists — the country’s far northeastern corner harbors some of the best historical sites. Hadrian’s Wall serves as a reminder that this was ...

Our understanding of what constitutes a pilgrimage is evolving rapidly, and the 2013 Symposium on Pilgrimage Studies being held Oct. 4-6 at William & Mary is reflective of that evolution. “We've ...

Most visitors to Zamora, population 66,000, stop in at the Semana Santa Museum, which masterfully presents the Passion in a way guaranteed to stir one’s soul. The magnificent expressions on the ...

The remains of an architecturally rare church that have lain unknown beneath the earth for a millennium have come to light in Germany. They are the foundations of a Romanesque church that may be ...

The third annual Holy Spirit Parish Walking Pilgrimage is scheduled for Saturday, July 26, starting at St. Mary’s Church in Mocanaqua and ending at St. Adalbert’s Church in Glen Lyon. St. Adalbert’s ...

SPURRED by the enterprising publicity of various parishes, we have just made a pilgrimage to three churches where important architectural work has been going forward. We began at the top and worked ...

When St. Philip Neri came to Rome from Florence in 1533, he encountered a city in upheaval. The Sack of Rome six years prior had left famine and plague in its wake. The Protestant Reformation was in ...