Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

The contemporary art installation was audible via speakers in the portico, or entrance, of St. Peter’s Basilica.

The basilica is home to several well- revered sculptures including The Pietà - a sculpture by Michelangelo, and the statue of St Peter on his throne. It is believed the Pope was not present at ...

For most of the 7.4 million visitors who descend upon Prague each year it still is, especially so they can rub the statue of St John of Nepomuk to ... As you shuffle your way through St Peter’s ...

By the wide Cathedral door was a tall Swiss guard as rigid as a statue, wearing a colorful uniform and holding a spear. On each side of the stairway stood monuments of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Francis gave Abdo a majolica tile with the image of a statue of St. Peter blessing on the dome of the Basilica in the Vatican, together with some volumes of papal documents, such as this year's ...

Don't tire out yet – you should also take a few minutes to see the sprawling Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square), and the huge statues of Archduke ... Classical Concert at St. Peter’s Church (1467 ...

There will be many festive events on this day, and many people visit the statue of Saint Paul that stands in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City as part of the celebration.

When the Vatican appointed the sculptor and architect Michelangelo to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, he based it on the Greek ...

But Francis was also echoing St. Peter’s own recognition of his sinfulness, as he responded to Jesus when he first called him ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A statue of one of St. Paul's most famous sons was stolen from the capital city earlier this month, police say. The statue of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of high school ...

A familiar Cathedral Hill statue of St. Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald has been stolen from outside the building where he attended school. The author was born in St. Paul in 1896 and attended St ...