Saint relics

The afterlife is just more elegant for some of us. In a state of repose in churches around Germany, Switzerland, and Austria are these jeweled skeletons...

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In 2009, a famous tour came to London. Every day for several weeks, people queued in their thousands, huddled into little groups and raising flimsy umbrellas against the old city’s autumnal drizzle. Big Ben chimed another hour gone, the sun began to retreat behind clouds, but still, they waited, inching…

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It’s hard to fathom now but there was a time (specifically, ninth-century Holy Roman Empire) when the bones of Christian martyrs provoked the same kind of...

I spent the entire afternoon in the Church for the Catacombe Siant: "St. Irenaeus". The St. Irenaeus decorated in Baroque style. And many Catacombe- Saint was protect with a fine gauze. there was placed over the head. And St. Irenaeus was given in 1654 by the Swiss-Guard Lieutenant Rudolf Pfyffer from Lucerne to the Church. And this mix of urban exploration and dark tourism is quite interesting. I hope you enjoy it. And have a nice evening and good weekend...

Art historian Paul Koudounaris hunted down and photographed dozens of gruesome skeletons in some of the world's most secretive religious establishments.

The unusual side of Church history. Click to read Weird Catholic, by Dcn. Thomas L. McDonald, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Anyone who is familiar with monotheistic religions like Catholicism is aware of the fact that the theology specifically dictates that ...