The catacombs at Westminster Presbyterian Church had been around for more than 100 years, but had fallen on tough times; ... The catacombs under Westminster Hall today.

CATACOMBS FOUND IN CHURCH. A clerk at historic Christ Church discovered large underground vaults containing caskets and evidence of long-forgotten catacombs under a courtyard where America’s ...

Cardinal Zen, former Bishop of Hong Kong, has been a frontline soldier for the Church Militant in its spirited resistance to the secular fundamentalism of Chinese communism.

The bishops' all but forgotten pledge, known as the Pact of the Catacombs, has gained new resonance with Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor. Under the vaulted ceiling of the basilica, a ...

From plaques in the sidewalk to catacombs under a church, New York has plenty to offer those who turn their gaze downward. By Michael Gold Embedded in the sidewalk outside a cigar store in ...

ROME – ROME (AP) — Twenty-first century laser technology has opened a window into the early days of the Catholic Church, guiding researchers through the dank, musty catacombs beneath Rome to a ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city.

All Christian catacombs in Rome are property of the Catholic Church, and no one is allowed to explore them without special permission from the Vatican. "It's not so easy to get the permission.

I've visited impressive church catacombs, but "somehow, squatting in the darkness with my hands and knees covered in grime caught my imagination more." Tours of underground sites with Sotterranei ...

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

The smells and gasses were so bad that, in one instance, three gravediggers died from the gasses in a church vault. Years of population boom, plagues, and wars overwhelmed Paris cemeteries.