The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Source: Pixabay In the green, rainy northwest corner of Spain, the city of Santiago de Compostela has drawn pilgrims for more than a thousand years. At its heart stands one
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Christianity’s Holiest Site
Source: Pixabay Tucked into the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City stands the church that many Christians regard as the holiest place on earth: the Church of the Holy
The Church of the Nativity: The Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem
Source: Pixabay A short drive south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, stands one of the oldest churches in continuous use anywhere in the world: the Church
The Church That Wears Its Frescoes Outside: Voronet and the Famous Blue
Most churches keep their paintings safely inside, sheltered from the weather. In a remote corner of northern Romania, a handful of small monasteries did something almost unheard of: they covered
The City Calvin Built: How Geneva Became the Rome of the Reformed World
In this article A Protestant Rome on a lake The cathedral that changed sides The Frenchman who ended up running a city What Calvin taught, and why it spread so
The Dark Virgin of Brazil: The Tiny Statue Behind the Great Basilica of Aparecida
Some holy places overwhelm you with their grandeur. Aparecida does that too, since it is one of the largest churches on earth, big enough to hold tens of thousands of
The Great Mother in the Mountains: Mariazell and the Shared Shrine of Central Europe
High in the wooded hills of Austria, a long way from any big city, sits a small town that for nearly nine hundred years has been one of the most
The Holy Sites of Christianity: A Guide to the Great Sacred Places
Source: Pixabay From the empty tomb in Jerusalem to the great pilgrim shrines of Europe, Christianity has gathered around a network of sacred places for nearly two thousand years. This
The House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus
Source: Pixabay On the wooded slopes of Bülbül Mountain, a short drive above the ancient ruins of Ephesus in western Türkiye, stands a small stone chapel that draws Christian pilgrims
The Jerusalem of the Balkans: Ohrid, Its Lake, and a Hundred Churches
There is a small stone church on a cliff above Lake Ohrid that has become one of the most photographed sights in all the Balkans, and rightly so. It sits
