A man climbed onto the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican February 7 knocking over several candelabras before being ...

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that ...

On the altar table are two candlesticks, bought with money bequeathed by a serving maid called Sarah Hughes, who worked for one of the clergymen in the 17th century. The silver gilt cross was given in ...

The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

New research has found a church in medieval Italy whose high altar was surrounded by a vast Islamic tent. How did it get ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

There are four stone staircases, one on each side, leading up to the 1.3-meter-high platform. The five kinds of colored earth spread over the surface of the altar (yellow in the center ...

The colours of vestments vary according to the seasons or festivals during the Church year. The many altars have frontals, or panels covering the front section of the altar. The High Altar, dedicated ...

The fresco was painted between the late 13 th and early 14 th centuries to represent a canopy placed over the high altar. The artist transformed the apse into a tent comprising a blue and golden ...