Most people don’t think of cast iron skillets, calendars, reins, or shoes as holy objects. Laurie Brock, however, definitely does. “Items of sacredness carry the story of how we are as humans, the ...

Wherever you go, the experience is usually the same. You enter a church or a cathedral, and an ecclesiastical hush descends. You admire the architecture, the artworks, the centuries of history and of ...

Heads and limbs carved of wood bound for a room of miracles in a Brazilian church. Two 19th-century figures: one from the Kongo kingdom, each leather strip of its dress a vow to the power spirit it ...

From the yellowed bones of saints to the Shroud of Turin and the tears of the Virgin Mary, the supposed relics and reliquaries of medieval art have long been surrounded by great commotion. The ...

An essential medieval tradition and practice from which we draw in cultivating the Flowers of Our Lady and Mary Gardens is that of the sacramental blessing of homes, workplaces, seeds, plants, trees, ...

It really isn't much to look at. Just a stretch of tattered fabric 14 feet long and a little under 4 feet wide, it is yellowed by time, scarred by fire, stained like a tablecloth not worth keeping.

get you back. Jews have rules. Hal Sirowitz is the author of five books of poetry: “Mother Said,” “My Therapist Said,” “Before, During & After,” “Father Said” and “Stray Cat Blues.” His work has been ...