As he lay on his deathbed—his right hand holding high the Holy Crown—Stephen prayed, asking Our Lady to be the Queen of the Hungarians. As part of the investigation leading up to the ...

Throughout the centuries, the Hungarian people have cherished St. Stephen’s right hand (called the Holy Dexter) — lopped off by pagan rebels in 1061 and since 1862 stored in a beautiful neo ...

Before he was put to death, Stephen had a vision of Christ in glory. “Look,” he told the Jewish court. “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” ...

T he bells of St. Stephen’s were pealing again, in homage to the holy season. From the soaring spire of Vienna’s beautiful old cathedral they rang out the hopes and fears of hard-pressed ...

The Holy Father will open the second of five Holy Doors for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in Rome’s Rebibbia prison on Dec. 26, the feast of St. Stephen. Sunday, July 06, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...