The 185-year-old St Malachy’s seminary opened just four years after Catholic Emancipation.
St Malachy’s Seminary, the only Catholic seminary in Northern Ireland, is to close in September, Church authorities have announced, reported Catholic Herald .
The Diocese of Down and Connor said it took the decision after Queen’s University…
Ouadi Qadisha UNESCO World Heritage site.
Ouadi Qadisha, is a gorge that lies within the Becharre and Zgharta Districts of the North Governorate of Lebanon. The valley was carved by the Kadisha River, also known as the Nahr Abu Ali when it reaches Tripoli.
Kadisha means “Holy” in Aramaic, and the valley,…
Єзуїтська церква Святого Михаїла на Нойхаузерштрассе у Мюнхені, – одна з головних цитаделей Контрреформації .
Храм почали будувати в 1583 році, але будівництво перервалося падінням однієї з веж, так що собор був освячений тільки в 1597 році. Однак доля все одно не пощадила храм – в листопаді 1944 року він був…
Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew I. Photo by Massimo Finizio, Wikipedia Commons.
His All-Holiness expressed the Ecumenical Throne’s unabating interest for the healing of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical problem and the restoration of unity for the divided ecclesiastical body in that country during his address in the Chamber of the Throne,…
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In 1996 Isravele – the name after which the worker has renamed himself – decides to leave his family and home, in the Zen district in Palermo in order to retire to Mount Gallo, occupying an abandoned military lighthouse. He recovered the old block and turns it into a personal sanctuary:…
The majority of churches in Iran that possess historical and artistic value were built around the eight century A.H. or the 14th century AD, and the period thereafter. Of course, this does not mean that there were no churches existing in the country before that period.
During the reign of Shah Abbas,…
As a young man, he joined a Trappist monastery but had to leave in 1961, after eight years, when he contracted tuberculosis and his health deteriorated in the monastic regime. He began to build a cathedral on a plot of land he had inherited from his parents. He had promised that if he recovered from…
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the killing of Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border, saying the deaths would only lead to more violence, and appealed for dialogue to bring justice and peace to the Middle East, reported Reuters .
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“I express my great pain for the dead and wounded and I am…
Monks first came to Caldey in the 6th Century. Pyro, the first abbot is remembered in the island’s Welsh name, Ynys Byr. Pyro was followed by St Samson, from the Celtic monastery at Llantwit Major. Viking raids may have ended this settlement in the 10th Century.
In the 12th Century Benedictines from St…
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