Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how ...

As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

The recent gesture by Elon Musk has reignited attention on the ambiguity and power of symbols. The hand permeates art history ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

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Murals from the 12th and 16th centuries are visible in Paphos’ oldest monastery, Panayia Chrysolakournas, Steni community leader Elias Lampides said on Saturday.Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ...

This discovery sheds light on the spread of Christianity during the Byzantine Empire’s golden age. Following Emperor Constantine I’s conversion to Christianity in the fourth century C.E., the ...

In St Andrews the army of the Lords of the Congregation stripped the altars, smashed the icons, destroyed the relics ... He asserted that the ancient Gaelic Kings of Scotland had been elected ...

would've been "Yeshu Narazene" in ancient Aramaic. If the messiah's real name was Yeshu Narazene, then the question arises: how did it become Jesus Christ? The answer is rather simple and lies in ...

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church of Albania after the fall of the communist regime in the country, has ...

This summer, Fairview, a town of nearly 11,000 people about 30 miles north of Dallas, became the center of a heated debate after the Town Council denied The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...