The Apostle and Evangelist St. John, called the Theologian, was the son of Salome and Zebedee. Zebedee was a fisherman of Galilee who possessed rather vast holdings with workers. He was a member of ...

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple ...

Plenty of churches contain relics of saints, but not many of those relics were found in excavations from sixth-century churches. Archaeologists at a medieval fortress site in Burgas, Bulgaria, found a ...

Archaeologists exploring a Christian catacomb under a residential Roman street have unearthed the earliest known images of the apostles Andrew and John. Using a newly developed laser to burn away ...