What exactly is a coat of arms? The armorial achievement, as it is known in heraldic terms, dates back to medieval times as a ...

The ban on approaching Roman parishes for the fake bishop who self-proclaims as Patriarch and also Archbishop Primate was not ...

Van Heemskerck arrived in Rome in 1532, and both classical and contemporary ... Saint Mary Magdalene and the donor. The reverses show two bishop saints and coats of arms (unidentified). The central ...

St. Corbinian (670-730) was a missionary bishop who brought the Gospel to Bavaria in southeastern Germany. His feast day is ...

The pope – the supreme pontiff, the Bishop of Rome, God’s representative on Earth – is the ... Urban II (1035-99) issued the call to arms that led to the First Crusade. At the 1095 Council of Clermont ...

Such, ill a word, is Salt Lake City, the city of uncrowned Caesars and tiaraless popes, the Rome of a new and strange ... so sure of such helping hands? A bishop allots him his acres, a bishop ...

The sides of the tomb chest are divided into panels each with a coat ... bishop of London, honoured at Ely, but afterwards great primate of the whole kingdom and minister of the King: for he was his ...

Soon after the film started, a bulb in the projector burned out, and while a boy was sent across Rome on a bicycle to ... was being run off for several bishops and four hundred priests; the ...

[5] The coat of arms of Bishop Langton and those of the bishopric of Winchester, found among the rubble of the inner gatehouse Thomas Langton (bishop 1493–1501) made further extensive changes. The ...

The painting was made for Niccolò degli Albertini da Prato who became Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, near Rome ... and that the reverse of the side panels bore the Cardinal’s coat of arms. Research, ...

Several kings and bishops of the Isle of Man were also interred at Furness ... many containing ‘portraits’ of the abbey’s benefactors or their coats of arms. Subsidence due to waterlogging meant that ...

On Day One of Pope Francis’ visit to the Asia-Pacific, I called him “Your Holiness”, unsure of how he would react if I ...