Pope Francis becomes only the seventh Holy Father to be laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome.

The 67-year-old St. Thomas More — a striking example of modernist Catholic ecclesiastical design — will hold its last liturgy ...

King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I ... was “found vehemently suspect for heresy.” Under Pope Urban VIII, Galilei was, in 1633, sentenced to life imprisonment.

Opened in 1819 at the encouragement of Queen Maria Isabel de Braganza (King Ferdinand VII's wife), the museum contains more than 7,600 paintings and 1,000 sculptures featuring Spanish, Italian and ...

one can search in vain through the interventions of the Holy See - those of Pius V, Urban VIII and Benedict XIV ... Pope Eugene IV in 1435 wrote to Bishop Ferdinand of Lanzarote in his Bull ...

Wellington repeatedly offered to return the collection to Spain, and on the third attempt, the Spanish King Ferdinand VII offered them to Wellington as a gift. So, Apsley House has a grand collection ...

After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June ... self-governance – exacerbated by his support for King Edward VIII in the 1936 abdication crisis – left him sidelined ...

Christopher Columbus is given royal commission by Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II to equip his fleet to ...

The Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state. 1544: Turkish troops occupy Hungary. 1700: ...

Among the hail and hearty was a Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros who sailed into Australian folklore in the year 1606. He secured sponsorship from Pope Clement VIII and King ...