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Saint of the Day: St. Joseph the Worker

Church History

CLONMACNOISE

Inma Alvarez

Clonmacnoise, the monastic hand that cradled Europe

MONASTERY OF SAINT ANTHONY

Philip Kosloski

These Christian monasteries are the oldest in the world

PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM

Philip Kosloski

This seminary in Ohio has direct ties to the Vatican

SEDLEC OSSUARY

Zelda Caldwell

The bones of 60,000 dead decorate this chapel

ASTRONOMIC CLOCK

Caroline Becker

Marvelous astronomical clocks are hidden jewels within churches [SLIDE SHOW]

POOL DISCOVERED EIN HANYAM SITE

Daniel Esparza

Israeli archaeologists find an ancient Christian site described in the book of Acts

BEER,MONKS

Daniel Esparza

3 Things you didn’t know about monastic beer

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I.Media

God only knows how much we need … Latin?

CLIP FROM GUNPOWDER,KING

Matthew Becklo

HBO’s ‘Gunpowder’ reveals the anti-Catholic persecution behind the Guy Fawkes plot

GRACE AND MIKE AQUILINA

Kathryn Jean Lopez

If you had to tell about something you love using 100 objects, what would you choose?

NATIVITY SCENE

Alicia Ambrosio

How a Roman woman who had visited Jerusalem influenced the way we celebrate Christmas

WOMAN WORKING ON STONES

Daniel Esparza

Remains of a 1500-year-old monastery found in Israel

THREE,PILLARS,CHINA

Jean Elizabeth Seah

The 3 great pillars of Chinese Catholicism

LAODICEA,MOSAIC,GYMNASIUM FLOOR

J-P Mauro

Archaeological find in Laodicea, a city from the Book of Revelation

MOTHER XAVIER ROSS

Patrick McNamara, PhD

Her father sneered, “What can a woman do?”

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Daniel Esparza

The oldest cathedral in the world is in Armenia

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Daniel Esparza

At the “Lourdes of India”: Our Lady of Good Health

ABBEY OF PRALIA

Daniel Esparza

This building is an abbey, a library, and a museum full of Renaissance masterpieces

GARGOYLES,GREMLINS,CHAPEL OF BETHLEHEM

Zelda Caldwell

How did these Gremlins end up on a medieval church in France?

Spencer Beer

Daniel Esparza

Spencer: The first Trappist brewery in the “New World”

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