Centuries after Jesus' time, the Church of the Nutrition was built around this house and the two adjacent tombs, but the church fell into disuse in the eighth century. It was rebuilt in the 12th ...

A 12th-century building sitting on 4th-century remains, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the only place where six Christian denominations practice their faith at the same site. Jesus' tomb in ...

Jesus was executed in Jerusalem. Early reports suggest that the cross was then broken up and dispersed to major centers of Christianity. An inscription found in North Africa, dating to 359, makes ...

Early works depicting Jesus’s death didn’t always show an overt cross, as in this 440 AD image from the Church of Santa Sabina. Credit: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) ...

The cross was handed over to the Holycross Abbey in Thurles, Tipperary in the 12th century by King Donal Mor O’Brien. The other two relics stolen were presented by St Peter’s Basilica in Rome ...

This entire, intricate account is faithfully depicted on an 18th-century icon on display at the Monastery of the Holy Cross, situated in the valley and a fabulous off-the-track tourist find.

Jesus' "good news to the poor" includes, in effect, "bad news" for the rich, as the "woes on the rich" in Luke 6:24-25 demonstrate, and Jesus's call for justice and his denunciation of injustice ...

Also discovered, was a second grey marble slab previously unknown to the researchers, engraved with a cross they believe was carved in the 12th century by the Crusaders.

Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.