VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has closed all of Italy’s ancient catacombs normally open to the public because of the country’s coronavirus outbreak. Vatican official Monsignor Pasquale Iacobone said the ...

Synod on Synodality delegates made a pilgrimage to Rome’s catacombs Thursday where they literally “walked together” to the tombs of early Christian martyrs. Hundreds of delegates took a break from ...

Pope Francis celebrated Mass Saturday for the souls of the dead in Rome's Catacombs of Priscilla, saying the place of a Christian is in the safety of the hands of God, whatever the outside ...

The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo display approximately 1,284 bodies — 163 of which are children. Researchers at Staffordshire University in England will use X-rays to examine the juvenile mummies.

In Europe, you’ll find that many of these human skeletons — even long after death — still have something to say. Here’s one of my favorite European memories illustrating how, if you know where to look ...

Rome's catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the 7th edition of Day of the Catacombs. A press release circulated ...

Some of the children are so well preserved they look like "tiny little dolls." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mummified and ...

Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sanctis Roma sit; Quam dives urbauum solum gacrls Sepulchris tloreat. THE results of the investigations in the catacombs during the last three or four years have ...