The rails were made in Italy from the same quarries used to source the stone for the church’s altar. Father De Celles has found that “about 80%-90% of the people kneel.” ...

A long-lost altar dating from the times of the crusades was discovered hidden in plain sight by archaeologists at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem — one of the holiest sites in ...

Archaeology & History Unassuming Slab Is Identified as Long Lost Medieval Altar. A stone slab in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is more than it seemed.

For years, a neglected stone slab, which tourists had been scribbling graffiti on, leaned against a wall. When turned over, it was revealed to be a medieval crusader altar, consecrated in 1149.

The relics placed inside the new altar of the Church of Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant in Kiryat Yearim, which was dedicated by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars.

An archaeologist has shared recently gathered evidence that Khirbet Qana, an excavation site in Israel, is the true location ...

At the heart of the newly expanded Romanesque church was a remarkable new high altar. We know from 16th, 17th, and 18th-century pilgrim accounts about a magnificent marble altar in Jerusalem, says ...

CHAMPAIGN — The congregation at Holy Cross Catholic Church had a new view for the Feast of Saint Joseph Mass on Wednesday evening, after the altar and other stone fixtures were moved practically ...

CNA Newsroom, Jul 17, 2024 / 14:05 pm. Researchers have unearthed a Crusader-era altar in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a serendipitous discovery that sounds straight out of an ...

The long lost altar of a church at the site deemed the holiest among Christians has been discovered after hiding in plain sight - it had been leaning up against a wall for centuries.

Notre-Dame is, however, first and foremost a church, and on Sunday evening, worshipers returned there as its first regular Mass was celebrated below the soaring stone arches — the old ones ...