But when they leave — believing their sins have been cleansed by the redemptive bath — they leave with one thing in common: their foreheads display a sacred stroke of color.

The Lamb of Christ, found on an altar at Saint Patrick’s Basilica, represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the Christian people to salvation. In Ancient Greek and Roman pagan traditions, ...

A poster of a theater play to be presented by students of a Catholic university in Lima, which combines religious symbols ...

One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than the Virgin of Guadalupe of ... This Marian shrine, however, had been preceded on Tepeyac hill by the pagan ...

The second book of Kings describes Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship, or “high places.” It outlines how he “removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones” and “did ...

These will appear along with the birthday cake emoji, and here are the dates they correspond with: Notably, Snapchat has other friend-related symbols. You can even change your friend emojis on ...

Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so once you've learned what each represents (as we explain below) you shouldn't have any problems no matter what you find in your laundry basket ...

There are moments in "Black Doves," the six-episode Netflix thriller series starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, that feel like any given show about a capitalistic spy organization full of ...

Much of her life has been lost to history, but the era’s political and religious turmoil helps suggest that above all else, her pagan beliefs ultimately led to her death. And, in a sense, immortalized ...

She’s a symbol of feminine strength fighting injustice ... Hardy-McAdams kids are atheists and her brother is Catholic. That didn’t stop her family from participating in a Pagan spell with her a few ...