The Medievals had three types of hospitals. The first, known as the leprosaria, for those afflicted with leprosy. The second were those erected for the general use of pilgrims and sick travellers and ...

Pope Francis died on Monday (Apr 21), aged 88, ending a 12-year papacy marked by attempts to reform the Catholic Church. Only ...

Pope Francis honors St. Francis of Assisi's legacy of peace, poverty, and respect for creation in Assisi, Italy.

Dubbed “the people’s Pope ... pontiff since the Middle Ages to step down. After Benedict died in December 2022, Francis ...

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Though Pope Francis never returned to Argentina after becoming the head of the Roman Catholic Church, mourners in his ...

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the enclaves offer community to people who had to build new lives and add vibrancy to ...

JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, laid the foundation of his fantasy world in Britain’s second city, where he ...

The civilization of the Mycenaeans was very advanced, as from the Bronze Age they constructed impressive 'Cyclopean' ...

Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday ...

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Kosicki, an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, cautioned that “on some level, very few people outside ... was created in the early Middle Ages to ensure that a new ...