In Rome, the Crypt of the Capuchin Friars features chapels decorated in bones from more than 3,700 long-dead friars. Remains were excavated from graves by friar brethren and turned into funerary art.

The creepy crypt beneath the Capuchin church has been spun into a Franciscan monk 'experience', complete with displays of the knotted whips of flagellating friars and cases of artefacts seized by ...

The Capuchin Friars of Ireland can trace their history to the Capuchin community at Charleville, France. Francis Nugent was born in 1569 near Mullingar, and after his education in Paris and ...

A former altar boy of a Roman Catholic church in Passaic is seeking $50 million in a blistering lawsuit against a former friar and the church he served, claiming he was sexually abused and ...

They've launched a benefit t-shirt to help with the costs. "Unfortunately, Crypt Sermon must announce our withdrawals from @up_the_hammers_festival and @hellsheroes," wrote Crypt Sermon of the ...

Last fall, experts were invited to explore Vilnius Cathedral’s subterranean level, where they used an endoscopic camera to look into cracks and holes in the crypt’s walls. In December ...

A changing contemplative theology of flesh led by friars throughout Italy created the underlying market conditions for Sienese artists to imbue their figures with more dimensionality and emotion ...

The Friars Fire broke out just after 12:30 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. It is 0% contained. The San Diego Fire Department confirmed it is at the scene battling the vegetation fire ...

The crypt of the monarchs was first discovered in 1931 during repairs to the cathedral in the wake of a devastating flood. In 1939, the clergy sealed the riches in secret chambers to protect them ...

Beneath the impressive, Gothic-style chapel on Scotland Road is a crypt - where 660 individual tombs line its walls. The origins of the parish date back to 1804, when a small chapel was first ...

San Diego Fire-Rescue confirms the Friars Road fire, Gilman Street Fire and Center Fire all originated in homeless encampments. Sources tell CBS 8 the smaller fires that broke out last week also ...