The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

Perpetua and Felicity, early saints mentioned in Eucharistic Prayer ... here are 10 things to know about these early martyrs. Perpetua was a young Christian woman and martyr who died just after ...

Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives ... It was decided to use the ten niches not just to commemorate saints or worthy figures ...

To become a saint in the Catholic Church ... the service of priests,” according to the Vatican department for saints. The ...

But as a Catholic, I cannot understand why we have Catholic martyrs in our pantheon of heroes who are not saints. Perhaps Rizal's case can be explained. Whereas the three Catholic priests have not ...

Above the Abbey’s Great West Door stand ten statues to 20th-century Christian martyrs ... Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq, will address the contemporary reality of Christian persecution in the ...