Under the Gables

  In honor of Saint Patrick, the great evangelizer of Ireland, here is the Deer's Cry of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, a most beautif...

Nechama Tec, author of When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland . Ms. Tec, who wrote many books on ...

Today is the feast day for  Saint Eustace , protector against family discord and against fire (temporal and eternal),  and patron saint of f...

  In honor of Saint Patrick, the great evangelizer of Ireland, here is the Cry of the Deer of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, a most beauti...

  The Vision of Saint Eustace by Pisanello, c. 1438-1442 As the French story of the 13th century tells it, Saint Eustace was a Roman soldier...

Supper at Emmaus , Titian, 1530, The Louvre The great Venetian Renaissance artist, Tiziano Vecelli , known as Titian, in 1530 painted...

Resurrection of Christ , oil on wood by Pietro Perugino,  c.  1496–98.