Sir George Villiers and his wife Mary Countess of Buckingham have a white marble monument with effigies in the chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey. Mary died on 19th ... near his residence. On ...

For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ ... holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my ...

Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars ...

The second stage was the sovereign’s progress through the city to Westminster ... platform raised high with ‘the chair upon the throne’, and with several steps up to the platform from the choir on one ...

In 2023 a similar incident was recorded when a man climbed the high altar and undressed, after which he was also arrested. The Code of Canon Law, the law that regulates the Catholic Church ...

A man climbed onto the high altar of St Peter’s Basilica and hurled candelabra to the ground in front of shocked visitors there for the Jubilee year. The masked vandal desecrated the altar by ...

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. Video posted on ...

New research has found a church in medieval Italy whose high altar was surrounded by a vast Islamic tent. How did it get there, and what did it symbolise? Anna Moore investigates New research has ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...