Pope Francis lies in state in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The ...

A tourist asked to be whipped by a local wearing a Roman soldier costume as part of an Easter tradition in the Philippines. The holidaymaker visited Marinduque province to witness the annual Holy Week ...

Shaggy tissue paper hats resembling caterpillars sit atop the heads of men and women wearing bearded and mustached leather ...

KALAYAAN, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of penitents whip their backs to atone for their sins during Good Friday rites in the ...

The annual traditional processions marked Good Friday across several localities in Malta and Gozo on Friday. In Paola, crowds lined the Christ the King Parish Church parvis and extended into the ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed off on the WPA helping to build the structures where the story of Jesus would be ...

SAN ANTONIO — A powerful Holy Week tradition returns to the streets of San Antonio this Friday. The annual reenactment of the Passion of the Christ will begin at 10 a.m. at Travis Park and will end at ...

There was a time when Marinduque was merely known for “Moriones Festival”, one of the country’s oldest and most anticipated ...

Mild violence includes Jesus’ crucifixion (which isn’t graphically depicted), the cutting of a Roman soldier’s ear (which Jesus heals) and references to the potential stoning of a woman ...

Roman soldiers were typically cremated. Whole-body burials were rare exceptions, particularly in the empire’s European provinces. “Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are therefore ...

John the Baptist Catholic Church on Mahantongo St. in Pottsville, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (MATTHEW PERSCHALL/MULTIMEDIA EDITOR)Zach Herb, left, helps his son Dylan Herb, 9, dress in a soldier costume ...

a type of footwear used by Roman soldiers. The museum wrote that the dagger was instrumental in the dating because its style was in use from the middle of the first century A.D. to the beginning ...