Saturday 18 May |

Saint of the Day: St. John I

Culture

AGE OLD CITIES EXHIBIT

John Burger

Cultural heritage of Syria and Iraq come alive in VR exhibit in Washington

Bread, wine and fish

Salvador Aragones

What did people eat in early biblical times?

LORD OF THE RINGS

Daniel Esparza

Hear Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien, reading his father’s works.

FLANNERY O CONNOR

Cerith Gardiner

Flannery O’Connor’s 4 lessons for being your best self

Daniel Esparza

Aleteia is now on Spotify! Here’s our Contemporary Sacred Music playlist

DAVE BRUBECK

Daniel Esparza

“To Hope! A Celebration”: Listen to Dave Brubeck’s jazz Mass

Daniel Esparza

Greek words every Christian should know

Ethiopian epiphany

John Burger

New list of UNESCO “intangible” cultural practices include Catholic traditions

THE CROWN

Bishop Robert Barron

Bishop Barron on ‘The Crown’ and the primacy of grace

TRAPPIST MONKS

Caroline Becker

A guide to recognizing religious and monastic habits at first sight

DEMON WITH ICRE CREAM

Daniel Esparza

The strange case of the demon with the ice cream cone on the cathedral façade

Arvo Pärt

Daniel Esparza

Listen to Arvo Pärt’s rendition of Psalm 130, “De Profundis”

CARTHUSIAN MONK

Daniel Esparza

By accident, Carthusian monks helped create the perfume industry

Daniel Esparza

A classic Portuguese recipe is based on a legend involving a monk, a stone, and a very compassionate village

MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK IN THE DESERT

Daniel Esparza

The meaning of rocks in Christian art

John Burger

This monk helped save ancient manuscripts from ISIS

TREE OF JESSE COPE

Daniel Esparza

The medieval Tree of Jesse was the first “family tree” used to represent a genealogy

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Daniel Esparza

Are you enjoying your internet? Thank this Jesuit.

SAINT CATHERINE MONASTERY

Daniel Esparza

The oldest continuously operating library in the world is in this Egyptian monastery

VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES

Daniel Esparza

The “secret” Vatican Archives are actually not that “secret” after all

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